Dear all:

The way to copy KDE settings to a diiferent user, including menu (kicker) entries:

- copy -R ~/.KDE to /home/newuser/.KDE
- copy -R ~/.config to /home/newuser/.config
- copy -R ~/.local to /home/newuser/.local

note that this is not the literal bash copy syntax!

Don't forget to do a chown to the new user on the directories mentioned.

And a question, maybe not so nice.

I have been googling around a few days trying to find out where KDE menu settings are being stored so that they can be copied.

I used keywords like "KDE copy menu settings user"

I had hundreds of hits, all telling that all the settings reside in .KDE, but NONE of them saying that the menu settings are stored in .local and .config.

So I am wondering if all those people posting this "knowledge" and "solutions" actually know what they are talking about, or that they are just copying what they see that others say?

But what is the use of posting solutions over and over which do not work or are incomplete. Some subjects seem to be very hard, because I see the questions over and over again. This was not the first question I had for which I saw hundreds of identical non-working solutions.

I understand that there are many different distributions. I don't blame people posting a solution which works in Suse, but not in Debian.

Please understand, I am not asking that someone solves my problem. I am grateful for many postings which DID solve my (numerous) problems. It is just a few tough ones, which yield the same answers over and over again. I try to post a solution myself now and then, but I realize it is only a tiny
contribution I make.

Cheers
jlinkels

Debian 3.0 Sarge
Kernel 2.4.18-2.4bf
KDE 3.2.3

I have installed kde 3.3 using konstruct. It was installed under /root/kde3.3. I tried the suggestions given below but there is no .config and .local in /root. If a new person , any help will be really great.

Thanks,
Rajendra

REdhat 9.0
Kernel 2.6.7
KDE 3.3