How to manage screen sharing settings via cli?

Question

I need to manage my ubuntu screen-sharing settings via cli (specifically via a puppet script). How can I set up the native screen-sharing functionaility by editing a text settings file, or some other cli-friendly way?

Answer 1

You can do so via the dconf database, either using the gsettings tool or the dconf CLI tool directly

Ex.

gsettings set org.gnome.Vino notify-on-connect false
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/remote-access/notify-on-connect 'false'

As noted in the manual page,

   Note that gsettings needs a D-Bus session bus connection to write
   changes to the dconf database.

so additional steps (such as launching a dbus session and attaching it to an appropriate session bus) may be necessary if you are trying to do this from outside of a desktop session.