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07-07-2003, 04:26 AM
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Registered: Jun 2003
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Desktop configuration file
Hi !
I would like to know where Linux writes the desktop configuration, because I've got two computers and I would like to have the exact same desktop.
Thanks
vic
Long life to Linux
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07-07-2003, 12:18 PM
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Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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Normally in a . file. . files are hidden. These are usually written to the users home directory, with the name of the application, desktop environment as their name. So if you were using KDE3 it might be:
.kde3
If you are using fluxbox it's .fluxbox and so on.
HTH
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07-07-2003, 12:58 PM
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Registered: Jun 2003
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Thanks for your reply man. I had chosen "show hidden files" in the configuration, but I can't see the files starting by a dot. How can i ?
Thanks
vic
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07-07-2003, 06:46 PM
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In the shell you can do that with:
ls -a
This displays all files in any directory, if the list is too long for 1 screen, you can:
ls -a | less
This makes you able to scroll up and down the list with the arrow keys.
Cool
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07-08-2003, 02:53 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Germany
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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In my distribution (SuSE 8.1) ~/.KDE is a (quite large) directory, not very obviously structured and the data hidden in some files. So editing (hypothetic) *.conf files is no easy chore ... read: I ran aground. Anybody with more experiences here, tips & tricks? For example, I would love to edit the structure of ten menus directly, but no chance, so far.
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