Re: GNOME skel setup

["Jean-Raymond.Chauviere" <Jean-Raymond Chauviere cetelem fr>]

I have a user, say testgui, 
I log as testgui running gnome, 
configurewhat I want to give to the users
exit from testgui
as root, 
cd ~testggui
I make a tar.
Creating a new user, I untar the same file
cd ~new_user
chown -R new_user .gnome*
for f in $(find .gnome* -type f)
do
	sed 's/testgui/new_user/g' $f >$f.tmp
	mv $f.tmp $f
done

When a user log in, you can test from the xdm start script
or the dt script (under dtlogin) if gnome is installed
and do the job above
I don't use /etc/skel (cause it is local to the machine)
but a script (accessed via nfs) called by dtlogin from /etc/dt/config/*
The same can be applied on every machine under cde.


Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:55:52AM +0200 or thereabouts, Jean-Raymond.Chauviere wrote:
> >
> > > I haven't been able to figure this one out. In KDE I setup the enviorment
> > > then copied that KDE configuration to /etc/skel. Works great. Is there a
> > > way to do the same thing with GNOME? (So all users start with the setup
> > > the administrator gives them?)
> > >
> > I had the same problem, and the same idea :-).
> > But stupidly, gnome when I tried this a year ago, gnome stored the home
> > full pathname in its customization files under $HOME.
> > I didn't verify for the new release but wrote a script to install
> > new user account.
> > I think we missed of a real documentation, I mean decent man (5) pages
> > on these files.
> 
> I am sure someone will reply, "Feel free to write them", but I'd settle
> for a copy of the script you mention :)
> 
> Alternatives:
> 
> (a) Wait for gconf, which I am told is going to solve this (along with
> half a dozen other things I bitch about, so clearly it is the ultimate
> app and will expand to include a mail reader). I have no idea about
> this. I hope it's true :)
> 
> (b) Have a look at Paul Cooper's Gnome Administration Guide. I believe
> he was looking for someone to take over this, owing to pressure of work,
> but he wrote up how he customised "default GNOME" for users on his system,
> and was looking for further contributions. I refuse to believe he's the
> only person to have managed the job successfully, so it looks like people
> never sent contributions in :( It resides at
>         http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~pgc/gnome
> (If you have a script that works for you, that sounds like a good thing
> to send for this, btw. Even if it's specific to your machines, it gives
> other people ideas of how to approach it on their systems. )
> 
> (c) Look through the documentation that exists (in a manner of speaking)
> on
>         http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnome/gnome-gnome-config.html
> It needs additions, and possibly corrections. Feel free :)
> 
> Telsa, who agrees that /etc/skel/ is very cool :)
> 
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