[Kde-kiosk] Debian issues - saving and using profiles

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Saturday 17 July 2004 15:56, cfischer5 at comcast.net wrote:
> I am running Debian Sarge

Which version of KDE does that use?

> (new install last week) and trying to set up user 
> directories for a small school lab. I think this program will allow me to
> pre-set user desktops based on group membership. But I can't see how to
> make kde use the group membership.
>
> Perhaps something else is not set  up correctly. It would seem that
> something in /usr/bin/startkde should somehow refer to
> /etc/kde-user-profiles or specify something from /etc/kde-profile. Did I
> miss something?

Depending on your KDE version [1] you need to add
	export KDEDIRS=$(kiosktool-kdedirs)

to startkde, that will do lookups in /etc/kde-user-profiles and set $KDEDIRS 
accordingly.

If your startkde leaves KDEDIRS untouched, you can also set it in xinitrc.

[1] KDE 3.2.3 shouldn't need it, although I discovered yesterday that that 
version is a bit buggy without it, so you pretty much need it for every 
version that is out there.

Cheers,
Waldo
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