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rikpotts

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Thursday, March 2nd 2006, 11:31pm

settings change for all users

When I first installed kde I only had the root user.
I changed kde (menus, panel, desktop, themes etc) as root. Now I have a regular user added I have to go through the whole process again of getting kde to look how I want it.

Basically I want kde to look exactly the same for both root and user but cant be bothered making changes twice.

ie If I install a program and add a link to the panel as root can I get it to automtically make the change for user too? Or vice versa.
Is there a set of config files I could copy to this happen?

Hope this makes sense!

Many Thanks
Rik

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Friday, March 3rd 2006, 7:10pm

RE: settings change for all users

You can let the root user symlink to the user. For example (as root):

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ln -s /home/user/.kde/share/config/kickerrc /root/.kde/share/config/kickerrc

Or you link the whole ~/.kde directory instead of a couple of configuration files, but that may cause undesired side effects.
Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)