Re: Copy all desktop settings for a new user
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 at 09:41 GMT, Philipp Schulte penned:
> Hello, lets say I have a few users (not all of them with prior
> GNU/Linux experiance) and I want to setup a common profile for their
> accounts. By profile I mean things like desktop-icons, desktop-theme,
> menues, MUA-settings, browser-settings, printer ...
>
> The users will most likely either use KDE or Gnome and applications
> like Firebird, Thunderbird and OpenOffice.
>
> I would like to create a role-account, configure everything for this
> account and copy all those settings everytime a new user is created.
> I know about /etc/skel but I am not sure if it's possible to use this
> because some paths are absolute in configuration files.
Just curious -- what do you mean by this? Even if the default files in
there have absolute paths, you could just edit them ...
>
> I am sure somebody must have a solution for this. Thanks for any
> pointers. Regards, Phil
>
>
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monique
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