[gdm-list] Gnome desktop and /etc/skel, plus mouse-grab control

[Zoltan Szecsei <zoltans geograph co za>]

Hi Guys,
Using ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick)

When I create a new user, I want their desktop to have a launcher for 
xterm already on their top launcher bar.

Manually I would just drag a terminal from the applications drop-down to 
the launcher bar, and then edit its properties to launch xterm instead 
of gnome-terminal.  Once I've done this, I can find it in one of the 
user's .gconf directories, and logically I would want to copy this 
directory to /etc/skel

But

Gnome desktop does not copy its files to the user's home directory until 
the user actually logs in for the first time, so I am guessing that 
copying this directory to /etc/skel is not the neatest solution.

Does anyone know where gnome keeps its own equivalent of /etc/skel, so 
that I can make my customisation there?

Also, the xterm that comes with ubuntu 10.10 has such narrow borders 
(which is why I want to use it instead of gnome terminal) that it is 
very difficult to resize. Does anyone know if I can set a mouse-pointer 
grabbing factor somewhere?


Thanks in advance,
Zoltan

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