Re: Default User Desktop

From: General Schvantzkoph (schvantzkoph_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 05/06/05

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    On Fri, 06 May 2005 12:36:14 -0500, Ivan Marsh wrote:

    > On Thu, 05 May 2005 19:13:11 -0400, General Schvantzkoph wrote:
    >
    >> On Thu, 05 May 2005 12:11:28 -0500, James Blair wrote:
    >>
    >>> James Blair wrote:
    >>>> Hi all. I'm relatively new to administrating Linux, and I'm wondering
    >>>> in FC3 how I would go about setting up the default desktop for new
    >>>> user accounts so that my new users will automatically have a group of
    >>>> launcher files and links on their desktop. Any thoughts on how best to
    >>>> do this?
    >>>>
    >>>> Sorry should have specified: I'm currrently use the Gnome desktop.
    >>
    >> If you want to clone a Gnome set up just cp -R the .gnome* directories
    >> to the new user's directory and then do a chown and chgrp on them.
    >
    > I've never done anything like this before so correct me if I'm wrong (as I
    > know you all will) but isn't that what the /etc/skel directory is for?
    >
    > I thought if you put something in /etc/skel it would get copied out to
    > the users home directory when a new user is created.

    I wasn't aware of the existence of /etc/skel. If it acts the way you
    describe then copying the .gnome* directories to /etc/skel will accomplish
    the same thing.

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