[CentOS] Customizing desktop systems

[Steve Huff]

On Jan 22, 2006, at 11:17 AM, Collins Richey wrote:

> I haven't found a good way to deliver a common desktop image for KDE
> or Gnome. We want to provide each new user with a common set of
> desktop icons, for example. I tried using a preloaded /etc/skel, but
> that doesn't work very well. There are too many individual hidden
> files and directories where userid is imbedded. I would need to search
> and replace userid in a lot of files.

the Red Hat Desktop Deployment Guide (http://www.redhat.com/docs/ 
manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide/) claims to provide a  
method for doing this.

however, when i tried hacking around with gconf for a recent project,  
i found that it was very easy to generate rafts of error messages, so  
i'd recommend making one change at a time and logging into the test  
account frequently, so that you can back out changes when you break  
things.

-steve

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