Hi there

Am running FC5 with KDE. When I set up a user I have been using the menu editor under each user to set each one up the same. Then the user can do what they want after that. Takes me quite a while to pick icons and make directories and change things around how I like it, even using the menu editor.

Is there an easier way where I can just copy a users menu setup to another user to save me this hassle. With all the same little icons and all that stuff.

Been putting off setting up another two users because I am getting to lazy to set each users menu up the same as everyone elses.

Look forward to any reploies and help.

Cheers

Gimmee

Never done this but copy the file /home/username/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu to the new user and see if that works. You will need to change ownership and groupship to he new user.

Brian

If you haven't created the other users yet, that's good!
Just set up the first user desktop and apps the way you want it.
Then, copy those settings to /etc/skel . That is where new users get their settings from.
For example: My first user is fred
If you are nervous about it, you can make a backup of /etc/skel first.

Hey thanks for those replies. No I havent set the users up yet so am looking forward to getting home and trying these helpful hints out.

Cheers

Gimmee

Never looked into the /etc/skel directory let alone what it was for. Well make a note of that. Learn something everyday even after 8 years of Linux. Thanks homey.

Brian

You're welcome Brian!
I was afraid that method was just blowing smoke as nobody seems interested. Then, I noticed that Knoppix uses a similar method in the 45xsession file.

Anyway, it works for me and I use it to cut down on setup time for all my systems. You can even rsync the first user settings over to other machines.

Man that command worked primo. Just added a couple more --excludes to the command and ran it. Added users with , adduser newuser, Set each new persons password with "passwd newuser" command. Logged out then into each user and it was exactly like the first user. Changed login photo for each person, set each persons email up, deleted some desktop icons they did not need and that was that. That was a huge timesaver and made adding new users enjoyable and very easy.

Thanks heaps for that valuable piece of info.

Gimmee (I don't want anything. thats just my nickname)

Glad you could use it!
I'm not going to mention any names but my nickname starts with the intials Homey.
DOH! I mean HC !

Hey there

One thing I havent sorted yet is when each person logs onto KDE, the WELCOME screen shows the orignal user name from when I

rsync -av --exclude='.thunderbird' /home/fred/ /etc/skel

for example all users would have the KDE Welcome screen showing Fred. Where is this name stored in the /Home directory so I can set it to correctly show each user who is logging in. Getting a bit of stick about it from the family but otherwise still one of the best commands I have learnt.

Look forward to any replies on this.

Cheers

Gimmee

Did you create the users with the command: adduser ?

Just to clarify, I only use the rsync command once to set the /etc/skel directory. Then, anytime I use the adduser command, the new user gets it's desktop settings from the /etc/skel.

Hi Homey

Yeah I only used the rysync command once from the first user, then did adduser newuser, then passwd newuser. My rsync command looked like this:

rsync -av --exclude='bin' --exclude='Clipart' --exclude='Downloads' --exclude='dvd' --exclude='Fonts' --exclude='Music' --exclude='Photos' --exclude='Printing' --exclude='Video' --exclude='.evolution' --exclude='.picasa' --exclude='Stuff' /home/gimmee/ /etc/skel

then: adduser katrina
then: passwd katrina


It set up the kde environment exactly like the first user but also added the first user name in KDE Welcome screen. So every user has WELCOME gimmee even though they are going into their own logon.

Sure it is in the .kde somewhere but cant see it yet.

Thanks for the replies

Gimmee

As root user, In kde Control Center/Login Manager/Convenience tab,
do you have Preselect User set to your original user?
That might be something for you to look at. If so, try none

Hi Homey

I knew I saw that somewhere. It must have been in root like you said.

Was looking around last night but didn't go into root and thus didnt see it. Will try that when I get home.

Thanks for the helpful replies.

Cheers

Gimmee

You're welcome!

I don't see a welcome message on my box but maybe cause I'm using gdm and not kdm.
If you are using kdm, you could at /etc/X11/xdm/kdmrc .

Here are a couple of lines which may be of interest.

GreetString=Welcome to %s at %n

PreselectUser=None

Other than that, I'm not sure.