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 --- If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - Fabian, Twelfth Night, III,v