On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Niki Kovacscontact@kikinovak.net wrote:
Hi,
The subject says it all. I'd like to copy my own custom desktop configuration for other users on the machine without having to go manually through the hassle.
Here's a non-exhaustive list of what I usually tweak :
- Theme + icons
- background image
- panel
- screensaver
- Nautilus behaviour
- Handling of removable devices
- Gnome Terminal
- Gnome Dictionary (french servers)
- GEdit options
And so on...
I used to do this before, a few years ago, when I was a Slackware user, but only with KDE (or XFCE on older hardware). Usually it boiled down to copy the relevant hidden directory trees (.kde/ or .config) to /etc/skel before creating new users.
Would something similar work with GNOME? And if so, what are the relevant hidden configuration directories to copy over?
You could create a new dummy user, customize her desktop as you wish and then look for the dot-g* hidden directories in her home. Directories called .gconf, .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome2_private and such are candidates. Some apps will use .local or .config also.