[K12OSN] edit global settings for preferences for all users?

[Rob Owens]

I don't know if you ever got a good answer to this
question or not.  You can start by reading here:
http://www.ltsp.org/documentation/ltsp-4.1/ltsp-4.1-en.html#AEN1190

Chapters 9 and 10 have details about settings you can
specify in the lts.conf file.  This file contains
mostly hardware-related stuff, like video drivers,
mouse type, screen resolution, etc.  

For settings that fall more under "user preferences",
such as desktop background, default settings for
OpenOffice (or other programs), you'll find a "dot
file" in each user's home directory for just about
every application on the system.  For instance, there
will be a .openoffice file or folder, a .gimp file or
folder, etc. (sometimes the version number is
included, such as .openoffice2 or .gimp-2.2).  You can
copy user1's .openoffice folder to user2's home
directory and that transfers user1's settings to
user2.  (You need to make sure that you give user2
ownership of his new .openoffice folder like this: 
chown -R user2.user2 .openoffice)

-Rob

--- Jim Kathan <tkathan at charter.net> wrote:

> Sudev, thank you for your prompt reply. So your
> answer is "yes". My follow
> up question would be "how?" :)
> What is the syntax, and how do I put it in? I guess
> I am asking "can I add
> in line parameters to specify themes, mouse and
> keyboard settings?"
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: k12osn-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:k12osn-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf
> Of Sudev Barar
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 10:18 PM
> To: Support list for open source software in
> schools.
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] edit global settings for
> preferences for all users?
> 
> On 19/08/06, Jim Kathan <tkathan at charter.net> wrote:
> > Is there some way I can globally, for all users,
> modify things like how
> fast
> > a mouse responds, the repeat rate of keyboard
> cursors, the theme, screen
> > resolution, etc? I found picking certain settings
> seemed to give my main
> > server the appearance of responding faster and
> more smoothly; and I would
> > like to do this for all the remote client logins,
> but not have to redo it
> 85
> > times. Any ideas?
> 
> The default settings section in
> /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/lts.conf at the top
> is where you can set specific settings if they are
> common to all
> users.
> 
> HTH
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Sudev Barar
> 
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