Re: setting preferences globally?

Hi All,

We're using Gnome. Sabayon, sadly, is a good idea but didn't work. I solved the problem of setting Gnome preferences globally by doing the following:

1. create a new user testuser and set up that user's Gnome profile the way I want it.
2. chmod -R a+rwx /home/testuser/.gconf*
3. mkdir /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
4. cp -r /home/testuser/.gconf* /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS
5. rm -rf /home/*/.gconf*
6. create a little shell script called cpmult to copy the new config files to everyone's home directory:

#!/bin/sh
for i in $(ls /home);
do cp -rfpv /UNIVERSAL_CONFIGS/.gconf* /home/$i; done;

This is pretty round-about but it worked. I'm really surprised Gnome doesn't have this functionality built in.

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Ian Chapman <packages@amiga-hardware.com> wrote:

> francis keyes wrote:
>
> > My question is: as root, is there a way that I can set every user's
> > screen saver preferences to NOT lock the screen?
>
> If the desktop is KDE, you can do the following:
>
> Edit the following file:
>
> /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdesktoprc
>
> The particular thing of interest is the following stanza:
>
> [ScreenSaver]
> Enabled=true
> Lock=true
> LockGrace=120000
> Priority=19
> Saver=KRandom.desktop
> Timeout=1800
>
> You can set Lock=false
>
> You should also be able to use the KDE immutable option next to the
> stanza name so that users cannot override these settings, eg.
>
> [ScreenSaver] [$i]
>
>
> Note though, that an rpm update may obliterate your changes, so you
> could create your own kde profile and add it in /etc/kderc which is how
> I've done similar things for our computer labs.
>
>
>
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