On Wednesday 19 December 2007 04:47:47 Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:55 +1030, Ian wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 21:25:34 Ian Collier wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +1030, Ian wrote: > > > > I'm deploying a group of workstations running opensuse & gnome. The > > > > gnome-volume-manager is set by default to make banshee run when an > > > > audio CD is inserted. I need to disable this (as a default) so that > > > > users can run grip instead without banshee loading. I can do this for > > > > one user in the control panel using the "Removable Drives & Media" > > > > settings, but I can't seem to find where that setting is stored so I > > > > can copy it to /etc/skel to make it the default setting. Can anyone > > > > please point me in the right direction? > > > > > > In my experience, configuring system defaults for all users in GNOME > > > requires jumping through ridiculous hoops. I'd be glad to be proved > > > wrong. > > > > > :lol: > > : > > > However, if you are looking for files to put in /etc/skel then > > > ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/%gconf.xml might actually work. > > > > > > imc > > > > It looks like that file has the setting I need - I'll give it try > > in /etc/skel. Thanks for the quick reply :-) > > Rather than dumping files in /etc/skel, you could just take > advantage of the fact that GConf has a built-in mechanism > for setting default and mandatory settings for all users. > > Check out the section on GConf in the admin guide: > http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/gconf-0.html.en > > And here's how to work with default and mandatory settings > using the Configuration Editor: > http://library.gnome.org/users/gconf-editor/stable/defaults-mandatory.html. >en > > If you're doing a lot of customizations, you might want to > check out Sabayon: > http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/ > > -- > Shaun Thanks, I'll check that out too - it sounds pretty cool, could be just what I need. Cheers, -- Ian gpg key: http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~imoore/no-spam.asc
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