[Linux-Discussion] Re: Desktop and kde etcetera
- From: "R.A." <bobbya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: linux-discussion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 23:49:39 -0800
Here is what I did.
I did a TEST. How simple.
Anyway, I created "Desktop" in the "/etc/skel" directory, as root. Then
I put only ONE thing
in that directory, a symbolic link to the executeable that all users
want access to. That is the only thing I put in the newly created
"/etc/skel/Desktop" directory.
I then created a new user, "testuser", /sbin/useradd -m testuser. Then I
logged in as that user. As that user, I typed "startx".
It worked, the new user had the symbolic link on his desktop.
I'm going to see how it goes, but I'd still like to find out if there is
a default "Desktop" somewhere, one that gets copied after someone first
types "startx", kde does it.
thanks!
Robert
John Madden wrote:
>>I was just wondering if there was a default "Desktop" directory
>>somewhere, one referenced by "kde", since startx does
>>not create it, so that I could just copy it, with all of the permissions
>> and subdirectories, into "/etc/skel".
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>That's a good point - I'm not sure if KDE stores that somewhere and then
>copies it, or what. You could always log in as a new user so that Desktop
>is created, then create whatever icons you need, then copy that Desktop
>directory to /etc/skel. Maybe a more KDE-specific list would have a
>better answer, though.
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>>The "/home/username/Desktop" directories all have different user and
>>group ownership. I guess I could just copy one of the freshly created
>>"/home/username/Desktop" file/directories into /etc/skel, and just
>>"chown -R root /etc/skel/Desktop", and do the permissions the same way.
>>Then I'd do "chgrp -R root /etc/skel/Desktop" too.
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>John
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