Antonio, thank you for reply.

On 06/16/2015 12:22 PM, Antonio S. Martins Jr. wrote:

----- "g" geleem@bellsouth.net escreveu:

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greetings,

i want to sync my desktop home directory to my laptop home directory. i am using KDE for desktop.

a problem that i foresee is the different screens between the 2.

i synced using;

rsync -a -u -v -e ssh /home/geo geo@192.168.1.5:/home/geo.new

with intent of in laptop's /home;

mv geo geo.org mv geo.new geo

what files and directories in 'org' directory need to be copied to the 'new' directory so that i will maintain screen setup in laptop?

Hi,

I'm using unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) to do this. It can sync in both ways if files are changed on both sides between syncs.

i did not recognize the site, but when i connected to it and started to bookmark it, i saw that i already had it bookmarked.

in checking, i found that it was from 2009-0514-09:08 pm when i ran a search for backup and recovery sites.

i pulled the docs and tar file to check out later.

And, IMHO it's better to filter out the directories that contain configuration for the systems, or better, sync only the documents and other pertinent files.

i agree, and i have already started writing scripts for both desktop and laptop to sync just the common, _non_unique_ directories and files.

so, back to my original question, worded differently.

what directories and files should not be copied so that configs for desktop/laptop do not corrupt configs for laptop/desktop screen?

i am presuming that '.KDE' is one of them, and what else?

i can got thru all directories and files, which would take time and is what i am wanting to avoid. call me lazy. ;-)

thank you for replying Johanthan.

On 06/16/2015 02:52 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:44:43PM -0500, g wrote:

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what directories and files should not be copied so that configs for desktop/laptop do not corrupt configs for laptop/desktop screen?

Maybe you need to be clearer. The screen's configuration is not really configured in your home directory, but by X (although these days it's all autoprobed).

Are you talking about what icons appear? The configuration for KDE?

. also, thank you for kicking my chemo brain in the butt. ;-)

yes, i forgot about X being the wise and wondrous now.

iirc, there used to be a file under /etc/X11 that had specs for keyboard, mouse, graphics card, monitor, language, etc, that one could make custom changes to if needed. several years back that got changed with auto probe. yes/no?

therefore, my only real concern would be for progs like firefox, thunderbird and what else that is not standard with distrib, and have special files in /lib, /lib64, etc. y/n?

as for icons and KDE configs, icons should be same as they are under /usr/share and i do want to have same/similar desktop window settings.

long story to short, just try it. y/n?

please excuse delay in replying. life does have it's priorities

On 06/17/2015 04:15 AM, Antonio S. Martins Jr. wrote: <<>>

Well,

First try to hold in the same OS version on both, this will easy things :D

this is true.

both are 6.6 and as of 2015-0516 both are updated to release 2.6.32-504.23.4.el6.x86_64.

IMHO, filter the dirs for firefox, thunderbird, etc... and try to sync only your docs and desktop info!

this is true also and main of what i will need to sync, which i intended to run from a script to work with paths in ~/ for:

.mozilla, .thunderbird, Audio, Documents, Downloads, Graphics, Personal, Pictures, Public, scripts, TV, Videos, WWW.

You can try syncing all and see what happens :D

could, but not. building common ~/ for and then rsync/ssh took long enough. ;-)

i found the file for screen info by opening

system settings > display > size & orientation

making a change to 'lvds' setting, then running from .kde

]$ find . -amin 1 -print .kde/share/config/krandrrc,

then restored to, size: 1366x768(auto) refresh: 60hz, which is to specs.

i still have a problem, horizontal tearing of screen while desktop is loading and centos banner is showing and varies each time. so i need to go back under the config directory to find what other files may need to be tweaked. or may be due to video chip being ati and may not be correct one loading.

just one more reason i like computers with linux os. i get to play and increase my knowledge. ((GBWG))

strange thing about that file,