configure gnome-terminal using a configuration file rather than command line arguments

Question

I've found in the gnome-terminal help documentation a really cool list of things you can configure in a file but absolutely no documentation of what the variables in the conf file are. I've googled a bunch for this and haven't found anything useful. Can someone point me to something or even list the actual commands. Or maybe come out and sit here at my desk and pair on it. My google-fu has failed me this morning.

thanks

Answer 1

You're not just talking about using gconf-editor (from the System menu usually) are you?

Actually, gconf-editor needs to be started from a terminal on my Ubuntu system here, but there are a bunch of settings under gnome-terminal there.

Answer 2

Also, gconf-editor stores it's configurations for gnome-terminal in ~/.gconf/apps/gnome-terminal