[Kde-kiosk] User Profiles, problems with

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Wed June 16 2004 18:18, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
> > 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?
>
> No, I just grabbed KIOSK 0.5 rpm from the SuSE website, as well as the
> KDE3.2.3 rpms  too. No self-compiling, just a pile of rpms that installed
> without a hitch. I then logged off X and back in again, no reboot which
> should not be needed?

Rebooting is not needed.

> > > 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.
>
> I think there is a mismatch, how can I remedy this. Using a symlink,
> perhaps ?

When you add a new profile, do you see it appear in the list of profiles in 
kiosktool?
If it appears then there is no mismatch. Otherwise you can make /etc/kderc 
into a symlink to /etc/kde3rc:
	ln -s /etc/kde3rc /etc/kderc

Cheers,
Waldo
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