[Kde-kiosk] User Profiles, problems with

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Wed June 16 2004 14:40, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> Hi
>
> -first, thanks for a most promissing piece of really usefull software!
>
> - I can't seem to get it to work, though. I'm on SuSE9.1, KDE3.2.3 and
> KIOSK v0.5, all brand new.
>
> If, say, I define a "profile1", this profile gets written
> to /etc/kde-profiles/profile1/... and so forth. I've checked, it's there
> ok. I now take an existing user, "tb", and using the user manager I define
> this user to use "profile1" when logging in.
>
> Am I right so far?

Yes. Did you compile KIOSK v0.5 yourself or are you using the SUSE packages? 
How about KDE 3.2.3?

> Only, nothing happens to user "tb", his got his all usual KDE. It's as if
> KDE is not looking into /etc/kde-profiles/profile1 to get the settings. Is
> there a place in which I can tell KDE to look after this directory?

KDE 3.2.3 should do so automatically. There may be a mismatch 
between /etc/kderc and /etc/kde3rc though. KDE uses /etc/kderc by default, 
but the SUSE packages use /etc/kde3rc.

> For new users, could I copy the /etc/kde-profiles/profile1/* to /etc/skel/?
> Thus new users, would be set up as I want them ?

Yes, that should work as well. The disadvantage of that approach is that if 
you make changes later on it will no longer affect already existing users.

> Anyhow, this sw looks great. Imagine its power if you've got one central
> server (in a school) and a pile of thin clients. You're now in full control
> over the desktop of every user -and that's in the most elegant way
> imagineable! Thanks again!

Cheers,
Waldo
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