I set up a computer for bored gentleman living in a nursing home to play chess and some other games on as well as publish a newletter. trouble is I didn't know his name so I got it all set up, devices working nicely from the KDE desktop etc as root, and then added him as a user once I found out his first name. now I'm faced with redoing almost everything again for his user account. But it occured to me this is linux, it should be possible to copy root's KDE config over to his user account. Trouble is I dont know how, and I'm coming up completely blank on Google.

it's slackware 11 huge26s, and no other changes.

thanks a lot.

Louis

Yes. Copy the .kde folder and .kderc file under /root to the new user.

I'm curious what you searched for. 'copy kde settings' in google yielded quite a few good hits for me.

thanks, I'd tried just copying .kde, without any apparent changes. I'll try moving the .kderc as well.

I tried your search terms and did find several good hits. I'd searched google.com/linux for a couple of different terms, and didn't get much.

Thanks.

ok, I copied both .kde, and .kderc. no apparent effect. I then did a chown ~user /home/~user/.kde (and .kderc), still no joy. next I went out on a limb and copied pretty much every file/directory in /root, and changed ownership of them. Still nothing. am I gonna have to do this by hand?

edit: ok, finally got it to work. I had to first delete the files from ~user and THEN copy them from /root and chown them.

thanks for the push in the right direction.

You can also copy the files to /etc/skel. Then setup the new users account using some utility that copies the files over to the new account, all new users will get the same starting settings. gUserman is what I use.

this box ended up being a "community" machine for several residents, and this method worked perfectly.

Thank you very much!

this one's a gem