Ubuntu – Gconf override glib schema error – “can not parse as value of type ‘d’”

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I'm trying to override the gconf settings for text-scaling-factor and scaling-factor on my system, following the method mentioned here.

So I created a file at /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override with this contents:

[org.gnome.desktop.interface]
text-scaling-factor="0.75"
scaling-factor="2"

But when I try to compile it I get the error "can not parse as value of type":

$ sudo glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/
error parsing key 'text-scaling-factor' in schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' as specified in override file '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override': 0-6:can not parse as value of type 'd'.Ignoring override for this key.
error parsing key 'scaling-factor' in schema 'org.gnome.desktop.interface' as specified in override file '/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/30-retina-scaling.gschema.override': 0-3:can not parse as value of type 'u'.Ignoring override for this key.

Best Answer

So it turns out it's the quotation marks that mess this up. The contents of the file should be:

[org.gnome.desktop.interface]
text-scaling-factor=0.75
scaling-factor=2
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