<div dir="ltr">Thanks again Rex and David,<div>Somehow I missed that I have both an /etc/kderc and /etc/kde4rc file - the odd thing is that those wouldn't be found in my config path I supposed based on:</div><div><br></div><div><div># kde4-config --path config                                                                                                                                                                     </div><div>/root/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/:/usr/share/config/</div></div><div><br></div><div>Or are those understood to be pulled in regardless of path?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to test this addition shortly:</div><div><br></div><div><div># cat /etc/kderc                                                                                                                                                                                </div><div>[Directories]                                                                                                                                                                                                      </div><div>kioskAdmin=root:                                                                                                                                                                                                   </div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/                                                                                                                                                             </div><div>userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile                                                                                                                                                                           </div><div>                                                                                                                                                                                                                   </div><div>[Directories-default]                                                                                                                                                                                              </div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/                                                                                                                                                              </div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# cat /etc/kde4rc                                                                                                                                                                               </div><div>[Directories]                                                                                                                                                                                                      </div><div>kioskAdmin=root:                                                                                                                                                                                                   </div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/</div><div>## a non-emtpy userProfileMapFile induces errors in kde4 apps atm</div><div>#userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile</div><div><br></div><div>[Directories-default]</div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/</div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# vim /etc/kderc </div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# rm /etc/kde/kscreensaverrc </div><div>rm: remove regular file ‘/etc/kde/kscreensaverrc’? y</div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# cat /etc/kderc </div><div>[Directories]</div><div>kioskAdmin=root:</div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/</div><div>userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-user-profile</div><div><br></div><div>[Directories-default]</div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/</div><div><br></div><div>[ScreenSaver][$i]</div><div>Enabled=true</div><div>LegacySaverEnabled=true</div><div>Lock=true</div><div>LockGrace=10</div><div>PlasmaEnabled=false</div><div>Saver=kblank.desktop</div><div>Timeout=600</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><div> - Kodiak</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Rex Dieter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdieter@math.unl.edu" target="_blank">rdieter@math.unl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
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On 06/20/2017 10:53 AM, Kodiak Firesmith wrote:<br>
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I looked for system-level configs for KDE in /etc and was saddened to discover no location in /etc/ to make a global override.<br>
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/etc/kde should be supported, output from this should tell you the path that is searched:<br>
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-- Rex<br>
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