Re: replicate user's gnome environment?



On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 22:30 +1200, Morgan Read wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 21:46 +1200, Morgan Read wrote:
> > 
> >> At first glance this seemed to achieve the desired result.  Except for
> >> my menu customisations, so:
> >> - What's the process to re-create a custom menu configuration in a fresh
> >> account - is it possible via gconftool-2/gconf-editor?
application menu :
check files under "~/.gnome/application-info/" for additional menu path.

are there any specific menu customization ?

> > 
> > In recent versions of GNOME, at least, menu customisations are stored in
> > ~/.local/share, so presumably you should be able just to copy that
> > across.
> 
> Thanks for coming back to me on this.
> 
> Your suggestions seems very simple and straight forward... but, doesn't
> seem to have produced any noticeable change to my new "test" gnome
> environment.  My commands are copied below, very very straight forward -
> any ideas what else might need doing to give effect to this? It's weird,
> as if nothing at all had happened.
> 
> This seems to have moved OT, perhaps there's a better forum - or off list?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Morgan.
> 
> 
> [root morgansmachine ~]# mkdir /home/test/.local/share/
> [root morgansmachine ~]# cp -r /home/morgan/.local/share/*
> /home/test/.local/share/
> [root morgansmachine ~]# ls /home/morgan/.local/share/ applications
> desktop-directories  icons  mime
> [root morgansmachine ~]# chown -R test: /home/test/.local/share/*
> [root morgansmachine ~]# stat /home/morgan/.local/share/*
>   File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/applications'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655311      Links: 3
> Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-05-24 15:53:41.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/desktop-directories'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655289      Links: 2
> Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-05-16 18:30:20.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/icons'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655354      Links: 2
> Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-02-04 07:34:22.000000000 +1300
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/morgan/.local/share/mime'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 655264      Links: 4
> Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: (  500/  morgan)   Gid: (  500/  morgan)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2006-10-28 15:42:47.000000000 +1300
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:06.000000000 +1200
> [root morgansmachine ~]# stat /home/test/.local/share/*
>   File: `/home/test/.local/share/applications'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211787     Links: 3
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/test/.local/share/desktop-directories'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211824     Links: 2
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/test/.local/share/icons'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211838     Links: 2
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
>   File: `/home/test/.local/share/mime'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211842     Links: 4
> Access: (0700/drwx------)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:08:25.000000000 +1200
> [root morgansmachine ~]# chown -R test: /home/test/.local/
> [root morgansmachine ~]# stat /home/test/.local/
>   File: `/home/test/.local/'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211681     Links: 3
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:56:36.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
> [root morgansmachine ~]# stat /home/test/.local/share/
>   File: `/home/test/.local/share/'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211781     Links: 6
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:59:45.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
> [root morgansmachine ~]# stat /home/test/.local/
>   File: `/home/test/.local/'
>   Size: 4096            Blocks: 16         IO Block: 4096   directory
> Device: fd01h/64769d    Inode: 1211681     Links: 3
> Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  505/    test)   Gid: (  505/    test)
> Access: 2007-06-19 10:30:23.000000000 +1200
> Modify: 2007-06-19 09:56:36.000000000 +1200
> Change: 2007-06-19 10:13:57.000000000 +1200
> [root morgansmachine ~]#
> 
> 
> 
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