[Kde-kiosk] User Profiles, problems with

[Verner Kjærsgaard]

Onsdag den 23. juni 2004 14:59 skrev Waldo Bastian:

Hi  Waldo,

- good to have you back :-)
- I'll look into the matter at the nearest convinience - and keep you 
informed!

> When you add a new profile, do you see it appear in the list of profiles in
> kiosktool?

Yes, I see the profile in the list of profiles.

Best regards,
Verner Kjærsgaard



> 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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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Verner Kjærsgaard
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