gnome desktop for all users?

subaruwrx · 10-27-2004, 11:27 PM

Is there a directory where I can place one particular shortcut available to all the users in gnome desktop?

subaruwrx · 10-29-2004, 11:08 AM

LaughingBoy · 12-17-2008, 12:34 AM

I'm keen to know this too.

Where does one put a Desktop shortcut (only really interested in Gnome - RHEL and Fedora systems) such that it appears on all users desktops?

Thanks in advance,

L.B.

lazlow · 12-17-2008, 01:10 AM

I think you would have to add it to the stock desktop before you added the users. I cannot remember where that is stored at the moment.

Edit: I knew I had seen this topic before but I did not catch how old this thread was.

billymayday · 12-17-2008, 01:11 AM

Crikey, that's an old post to dig up.

Why don't you simply put a link in each ~/Desktop? Write simple loop, something like (not tested):

Code:

for i in  /home/*; do ln -s target_here $i/Destop/link_name; done

LaughingBoy · 12-18-2008, 01:35 AM

Cheers Billy.

Yes, it's an old post, but I was trying to do the right thing by searching before posting, and this was the closest I could come up with.

As for the linking loop - that's close to what we came up with, except it doesn't permit each user to delete if they want to, so we had to su $i first.

I was just wondering if there was an "all users" location for a simple "cp" operation instead.

I'm guessing no?

L.B.

billymayday · 12-18-2008, 01:47 AM

Are all your users in the same group? You could just run a similar loop with "chgrp users" or whatever

jf.argentino · 12-18-2008, 02:25 AM

You have a directory "/etc/skel" which contains all files and directories for new user home, I think you just have to add a "Desktop" subdir with the proper links. Then the new users you'll create will have the links on their desktop.

SlowCoder · 12-18-2008, 08:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LaughingBoy

I was just wondering if there was an "all users" location for a simple "cp" operation instead.

/etc/rc.local is run after all other startup scripts are executed.
/etc/bashrc is executed as part of a user's bash login.

nooneknowme · 12-18-2008, 10:10 AM

interesting question.
i googled arnd and found the following directories which i found to be promissing. Not sure though ( Dont have a *nix system to check at present. Do try the following dirs'

Quote:

Menus are specified by ".desktop" files located in one of the following directories:
/usr/share/gnome/apps/
/etc/X11/applnk/
/usr/share/applnk/
$HOME/.gnome/apps/ (Private menues)

i know it can be done through the last one, but that wont be fun. Try the other 3 directories

forgot to add a link to the source site where i got the info

Quote:

http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/GNOME.html