I'm setting up 4 computers for a non-profit that has these machines set-up
for general public use. I've created a user here on my laptop at home with
XFCE and have customized it to only allow people to use a few things on it
(firefox, gaim, games, open office) and would like this config to be the
default when the machine boots up.

My question is, how do i take the xfce i have set up here, and make it the
default desktop config when these puppies boot up?

Leonard The Committed wrote:

> how do i take the xfce i have set up here, and make it the
> default desktop config when these puppies boot up?

Auto-login from kdm/xdm?

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On 2007-04-29, Leonard The Committed <leothecomm@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm setting up 4 computers for a non-profit that has these machines set-up
> for general public use. I've created a user here on my laptop at home with
> XFCE and have customized it to only allow people to use a few things on it
> (firefox, gaim, games, open office) and would like this config to be the
> default when the machine boots up.
>
> My question is, how do i take the xfce i have set up here, and make it the
> default desktop config when these puppies boot up?


Xfce stores its settings and such in directories of $HOME/.config, and
some local menu entries are generated from $HOME/.local

RW

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:22:09 +0000, Robby Workman wrote:

> On 2007-04-29, Leonard The Committed <leothecomm@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm setting up 4 computers for a non-profit that has these machines set-up
>> for general public use. I've created a user here on my laptop at home with
>> XFCE and have customized it to only allow people to use a few things on it
>> (firefox, gaim, games, open office) and would like this config to be the
>> default when the machine boots up.
>>
>> My question is, how do i take the xfce i have set up here, and make it the
>> default desktop config when these puppies boot up?
>
>
> Xfce stores its settings and such in directories of $HOME/.config, and
> some local menu entries are generated from $HOME/.local
>
> RW

Thanks for the heads up. Had already tried to copy those over, but didn't
take into account the permissions after moving it. Figured that out and
everything is OK.

On Wed, 02 May 2007 07:26:21 -0400, Leonard The Committed wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:22:09 +0000, Robby Workman wrote:
>>
>> Xfce stores its settings and such in directories of $HOME/.config, and
>> some local menu entries are generated from $HOME/.local
>>
>> RW
>
> Thanks for the heads up. Had already tried to copy those over, but didn't
> take into account the permissions after moving it. Figured that out and
> everything is OK.

If you put the XFCE configuration files in the right places in /etc/skel,
they should be installed every time you create a new user.

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