New User Account Defaults

[SamK]

I am designing a system to be used on older PCs using Openbox and LXDE on top of a CLI installation of Ubuntu 8.10. This is working very well.

The settings or preferences for various LX components have been changed to meet my requirements.

• Appearance
  LX Terminal
  Openbox Configuration Manager
  PCMan File Manager
  QT 4 Settings
  Screensaver

How can these revised settings be automatically applied to each new user account at the time of creation?
Is it a case of placing files in /etc/skel? If so which files?
Is an alternative method recommended?

[archibald haddock]

For skel use, you need to copy the whole structure of the configuration files in /etc/skel
So if your config file is ~/.whatever/file, you would copy it to /etc/skel/.whatever/file

[SamK]

... ~/.whatever/file, you would copy it to /etc/skel/.whatever/file

In Ubuntu 8.10 the hidden directory ~/.config contains all the configuration sub-directories and folders that I required and worked perfectly when used in accordance with the guidance provided.

Many Thanks
SamK