[K12OSN] Apply Gnome Theme to all users

[Edwardson]

Thank you for the suggestion. I'm playing around with it now.

Edward
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> Some people just breathe different air it seems ;)
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> wonderful HOWTO Eric!
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> Eric Harrison wrote:
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>> Edwardson wrote:
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>>> Hi,
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>>> How do i apply a Gnome theme ( i downloaded an XP theme) to all users 
>>> (thin clients).
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>>> Edward
>>> Thailand
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>> The "correct" way to do this is to use sabayon 
>> (http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/). If you have sabayon installed, 
>> it will be on your menu as System -> Administration -> User Profile Editor
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>> If you don't have sabayon installed, you can install it with
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>>     yum install sabayon sabayon-admin
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>> But that is simply too easy! Let's do this the hard way! (I'm looking at 
>> how to script this for K12LTSP 6.0 and am using this email as my 
>> personal documentation, no need to read any further unless you want to 
>> know the nuts-and-bolts ;-)
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>> The first thing I did was run gnome-theme-manager (System -> Preferences 
>> -> Theme) and play around with different theme settings until I found 
>> one that I liked and jotted down its name (say I liked Clearlooks). I 
>> then set the theme to something with an unusual name that would be easy 
>> to search for, "Amaranth" for this example.
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>> I then fired up gconf-editor, selected Edit -> Find -> Search for: Amaranth
>> and clicked on the "Search also in key values" button.
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>> This returned the following entries:
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>> /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme
>> /apps/metacity/general/theme
>> /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme
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>> By clicking on them, it will bring them up in the editor window where I 
>> can manually change the values (say to Clearlooks).
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>> But that is still too easy, and it only works on my account - it doesn't 
>> change the global settings. So let's play around with some command line 
>> magic.
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>> First, let's test that we can successfully change the settings on own 
>> accounts:
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>> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme   Clearlooks
>> gconftool-2 -t string -s /apps/metacity/general/theme         Clearlooks
>> gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme  Clearlooks
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>> Once we are happy with that, we can then log in as root ("su -l" from 
>> your shell will do the trick), and make these settings the default for 
>> all users:
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>> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
>>     xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>>     --type string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_theme Clearlooks
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>> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
>>     xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>>     --type string --set /apps/metacity/general/theme Clearlooks
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>> gconftool-2 --direct --config-source \
>>     xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults \
>>     --type string --set /desktop/gnome/interface/icon_theme Clearlooks
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