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Get/Set proxy settings in Gnome with GObject instrospection

by mandel on February 7th, 2012

With GObject introspection is very simple to set the settings of your system trough python. Fist, lets use the command line to find out our current settings:

gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.system.proxy

The following script allows you to retrieve the http proxy settings that you are currently using:

from gi.repository import Gio
 
def get_settings():
    """Get proxy settings."""
    http_settings = Gio.Settings.new('org.gnome.system.proxy.http')
    host = http_settings.get_string('host')
    port = http_settings.get_int('port')
    if http_settings.get_boolean('use-authentication'):
        username = http_settings.get_string('authentication_user')
        password = http_settings.get_string('authentication_password')
    else:
        username = password = None
    return host, port, username, password

Setting them is as easy as getting them:

from gi.repository import Gio
 
def set_settings(host, port, username=None, password=None):
     """Set proxy settings."""
     http_settings = Gio.Settings.new('org.gnome.system.proxy.http')
     http_settings.set_string('host', host)
     http_settings.set_int('port', port)
     if username is not None:
         http_settings.set_boolean('use-authentication', True)
         http_settings.set_string('authentication_user', username)
         http_settings.set_string('authentication_password', password)

This is not utterly complicated but I’m notice that there are not many examples out there, so there you go. There is no code there that can be considered hard but I’d like to point out that if you use the get_value method from the Settings object you will have to call the appropriate get_* method from the returned GVariant, that is:

host = http_settings.get_string('host')

is equal to the following:

host = http_settings.get_value('host').get_string()

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