Great email Robert, thank you very much. *Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons)*
<http://www.ubuntu.com/> On 17 July 2011 15:12, Robert McWilliam <r...@allmail.net> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2011 09:11 +0100, "Dino T." <d...@dinot.co.uk> wrote: > > Does anyone know how to transfer settings from .config to system wide so > > when using Remastersys, the settings stay saved? > > Where/if an application looks for system wide settings is really > application dependent - have a look in the man pages (or other > documentation) for the applications you care about. > > I know many will look for a config file somewhere in /etc/ and then > whatever is in ~ can override some of that, but where in /etc/ the > application is going to expect the config and exactly how that will > interact with one in ~ is application dependent (e.g. gconf has both > default (that can be overridden by the user) and mandatory (that can't) > settings: > > http://muzso.hu/2009/07/23/gnome-settings-changing-global-defaults-and-setting-a-keyboard-shortcut-for-all-users > ). > > One option might be to put the configuration files you want in > /etc/skel/ - these will be copied into ~ when a new user is created. > > That only gives a starting point for the configs in ~ though, if you > make changes to /etc/skel/ after a user has been created they wont be > reflected in the user's ~. You could do something with links to get that > to work but it would require your users to remove the link and make a > normal file before they could make changes. > > Robert > ________________________________________________________ > Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.net www.ormiret.com > > The opinions expressed herin are not necessarily those of my > employer, not necessarily mine, and probably not necessary. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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