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New User Account Defaults

Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2009 9:09 am
by 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?

Re: New User Account Defaults

Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:45 am
by 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

Re: New User Account Defaults

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:20 am
by SamK
archibald haddock wrote:... ~/.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