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GLIB-COMPILE-SCHEMAS()                                                        GLIB-COMPILE-SCHEMAS()

NAME
       glib-compile-schemas - GSettings schema compiler

SYNOPSIS
       glib-compile-schemas [OPTION…] DIRECTORY


DESCRIPTION
       glib-compile-schemas  compiles  all the GSettings XML schema files in DIRECTORY into a binary
       file with the name gschemas.compiled that can be used by GSettings. The XML schema files must
       have the filename extension .gschema.xml. For a detailed description of the XML file  format,
       see the GSettings documentation.

       At  runtime, GSettings looks for schemas in the glib-2.0/schemas subdirectories of all direc‐
       tories specified in the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable. The  usual  location  to  install
       schema files is /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas.

       In  addition  to  schema files, glib-compile-schemas reads ‘vendor override’ files, which are
       key files that can override default values for keys in the schemas. The group  names  in  the
       key  files are the schema ID, and the values are written in serialized GVariant form.  Vendor
       override files must have the filename extension .gschema.override.

       By convention, vendor override files begin with nn_ where nn is  a  number  from  00  to  99.
       Higher  numbered files have higher priority (e.g. if the same override is made in a file num‐
       bered 10 and then again in a file numbered 20, the override from 20 will take precedence).

OPTIONS
       -h, --help
          Print help and exit.

       --version
          Print program version and exit.

       --targetdir <TARGET>
          Store gschemas.compiled in the TARGET directory instead of DIRECTORY.

       --strict
          Abort on any errors in schemas. Without this option, faulty schema files are simply  omit‐
          ted from the resulting compiled schema.

       --dry-run
          Don’t  write  gschemas.compiled. This option can be used to check .gschema.xml sources for
          errors.

       --allow-any-name
          Do not enforce restrictions on key names. Note that this option is purely to facility  the
          transition from GConf, and will be removed at some time in the future.


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