[K12OSN] KDE menu editing

Patrick Mohr patmo98 at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 8 15:20:36 UTC 2004


sysadmin wrote:

> I setup one user with all the desktop and menu settings that I want the
> other users to have (ie one user is setup to become the defaults for the
> others).  I then copy to /etc/skel the directories .kde, .opera, .mozilla
> and .phoenix; we give the users a choice of four web browers but 
> unless you
> have opera, mozilla or firefox installed, you can ignore the browser
> stuff.  In both the .mozilla and .phoenix dirs you need to remove
> appreg.  When a new user is created, the menu and desktop settings are
> replicated. One extra thing that you must do when the new user is created
> is need to set the correct path in pref.js (.mozilla and .phoenix in the
> new users home dir), which is easy with a bit of sed.  I know the way 
> that
> I treat mozilla & firefox is not the recommended method but the 
> "approved"
> method is far to fiddley.
>
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> I've used this method on both RH9 & Fedora 1 successfully and while it
> works for me, YMMV.
>
> Regards
>
> Martin Woolley
>
> ICT Support
>
> Handsworth Grammar School
>
> Isis Astarte Diana Hecate Demeter Kali Inanna
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>
Would you please post the sed script?  I think that several people could 
benefit from it.





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