Change sound settings globally

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 19:38, Boyan Tabakov wrote:
> On 1.2.2007 20:31:48 Christoph Pleger wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 19:24:35 +0200
> >
> > Boyan Tabakov <blade.alslayer at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I want to configure the KDE sound system in a way so that the
> > > > Enlightened sound daemon is taken a output device, but not only for
> > > > one user, but for all users.
> > > >
> > > > My first attempt was to change the settings for one user and then
> > > > copy the file kcmartsrc to the global KDE configuration directory,
> > > > but that did not work as expected.

Can you check if the user you tried it with had a local file overriding your 
global one?

> > > If it is a home computer, you could do this manually for each user. It
> > > will  definitely save time.
> >
> > No, it is not a home a computer, it will be a Linux terminal server
> > where I do not
> > even have the necessary access rights to change per-user settings
> > (because the home
> > directories are on a network file system).
>
> Well, I think that user's settings have priority when configuring user
> specific settings of the KDE environment. If you don't have administrative
> access to their homedirectories, I don't think you'll be able to force such
> settings.
>
> Anyone else? Is there a way to restrict some of the user settings
> administratively?

Yes, called the Kiosk framework:
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase/userguide/locking-down-kde.html

A couple of other links which might be of interest to an administator:
http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/
http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdelibs/kdecore/README.user_profiles?rev=438982&view=auto
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=444344&view=auto

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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