Customizing YDL

[Greg Hamilton]

Ahhh, sorry. I understand what you're asking now.

I guess there must be some default files somewhere that Gnome grabs the  
first time a new user starts a Gnome session. Probably a whole bunch of  
them. It's going to create .gtkrc, .gnome/..., ..gnome2/..., etc.

You could setup a test account with the desktop environment you're  
after, then tar.gz all the Gnome config files/dirs. Then write a new  
user script which runs useradd and then, on successfully creating a new  
user, untars your default Gnome config into the new home dir you've  
just created.

Seems a little clumsy I suppose, but it would be really easy.

Greg

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 11:01  PM, Ben Hall wrote:

> Thanks, but I'm looking to do this for _all new users_  (default  
> user..)
> not just me.  I'm looking into putting in a small lab of Linux systems
> and cannot configure each desktop (as the accounts already exist in
> Solaris/NIS.)
>
> FWIW, I got rid of the unwanted applets by uninstalling the RPM (this  
> is
> what is commonly referred to as the brute-force method. ;)  I also  
> found
> that you could disable the screensaver by editing an XML file in
> /etc/gconf somewhere...
>
> Ben
>
>
> On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:50, Greg Hamilton wrote:
>> I use Gnome.
>>
>>> 1) Get rid of the some applets (and maybe add my own)
>> A right mouse button click on the on any panel item will display a
>> menu. Select 'remove from panel'.
>>
>>> 2) Set a default wallpaper
>> Right click on the desktop. Last option in the menu is 'Change Desktop
>> Background'
>>
>>> 3) Set default desktop icons
>> Open the main menu using the main menu icon in the panel (the icon  
>> with
>> the  YDL logo). Select Preferences/Themes to display currently
>> installed themes. Select the details of a theme. Change whatever.
>> You'll be prompted to save your changes as a new theme. Old theme
>> remains unchanged.
>>
>>> 4) Set default panel icons (get rid of Presentations, add the  
>>> terminal
>>> etc.)
>> To add new items click on a free spot on the panel (ie. not an icon or
>> applet). Select 'add to panel'
>>
>>> 5) Stop Gnome from asking to shut down/reboot on exit
>> dunno
>>
>>> I'm mostly looking at changing this stuff for Gnome, but KDE would be
>>> nice too. I was expecting this to be in /etc/skel, but it's not.  I
>>> then
>>> looked in the rest of /etc, but couldn't find anything helpful (which
>>> doesn't mean it's not in there.;-)
>> Don't know about KDE. I have it installed just in case I get curious
>> but I really like Gnome. It has the little footprint. Four toes. Cute
>> little footprint. There it is. On the screen. Right now. Little
>> footprint. Must sleep now.
>>
>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>
>>> Ben
>>>
>>>
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