On Tuesday 07 August 2001 22:21, Michael Schuerig wrote: > On Tuesday 07 August 2001 21:18, Achim Bohnet wrote: > > I personally don't like to do system wide config with environment > > variables. User can use kdm or gdm, Bourne or C shell like login > > shells, or login via ssh, rsh , telnet etc. to start kde applicatins. > > So I prefer the system.kdeglobals or kderc. It's more to type but > > it is where kde always looks. > > I'm not sure I really understand how it works with system.kdeglobals > and kderc.
Same here :( I still don't understand why /usr/share/config/system.kdeglobals is used (compiled in) and not /etc/kde2 despite the fact that kde_confdir is set during configure of the kde packages. AFAIU kderc, system.kdeglobals and ~/.kderc (never tried) have a [Directories] group with items like dir_XXXX=/path/to/additional/dir with XXXX out of the list generated by kde-config --types /etc/kderc is used by all kde installation (will see if/how "Ivan's" /etc/kderc breaks a binary incompatible cvs-build that depends on QT3 >:} <prefix>/share/config/system.kdeglobals is used by all kde apps build with configure --prefix=<prefix> (or similar). ~/.kderc is used for all different kde builds a user may use (e.g., Ivans and a cvs build) ??? never checked if the is a similar config file for $KDEHOME/share/config > How about an "additive" mechanism, where global settings are read from > a standard KDE config file and local or per user additions are read > from (if present) /etc/kde2/kde.local and ~/.kderc? Lost the thread, sorry. The goal is a mini-howto, right? Something like how a sys admin can integrate additional kde tools that he/she added to a, e.g., /usr/local/opt/kde2 tree and similar for a user added kde tools to a, e.g., ~/mykde tree. I never used these variants, maybe other can report how they did it. I only have Ivans KDE debs and a parallel cvs build. I use rm /etc/kderc mkdir /usr/share/config ln -s /etc/kde2/system.kdeglobals /usr/share/config/ and a /usr/bin/kde-cvs script that I add to kdms session menu. This script sets the PATH, KDEHOME different form ~/.kde (just to be sure ;) and starts startkde (from the cvs tree). Achim > > Michael > > -- > Michael Schuerig GPG Fingerprint > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] DA28 7DEB 5856 3365 BED9 > http://www.schuerig.de/michael/ 8365 0A30 545A 82D2 05D7 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]