Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 04:19:12 -0500 From: Heliocentric <heliocentric@gmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME help PLEASE Message-ID: <bdf82f800603120119l5ade9392qe80e3b516538d8c0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20060311203505.S54219@chylonia.3miasto.net> References: <20060311203505.S54219@chylonia.3miasto.net>
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On 3/11/06, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net> wrote: > while i'm not regular user of gnome, i have to configure it for users. > > the problem is how to make configuration template default for every new > user. > > i tried to copy whole or partial user directory to other users+chown but > no success. always something crashes or doesn't work. only copying deskto= p > icons ends in full success. /usr/share/skel/ is where default config files usually go, any file starting with . has to be renamed to dot. (so .fvwm2rc becomes dot.fvwm2rc). As far as I know, this only works with a "normal" adduser.conf and using the adduser command or pw. Also, (with X11 programs especially) you'll have to edit all absolute paths in the config files to point to either relative, of if the app supports it, $HOME or ~/, so the programs won't attempt to write or read from the user you copied the configs from. Example: IconPath /root/icons would become: IconPath $HOME/icons hope this helps :)
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