How to make new users inherit pre-set settings fedora 16 KDE

[murenti]

Running Fedora 16 KDE 64 bit

How do I make new users inherit pre-set settings in fedora 16

Many thanks in advance for you help

[Gareth Jones]

When a new user is added, the files in /etc/skel are copied into their newly-created home directory. To add or change default settings, you need to know the appropriate file and add it to /etc/skel.

[murenti]

Thanks for that, I had a look in /etc/skel and it was empty. Is there any other setting or user file setting file that I could copy there? Just to clarify what I want to do: I want to make all new users inherit my user settings, so that layout icons etc are translated to the new user.

Many thanks

[Gareth Jones]

There should be some hidden configuration files there:

[gareth@gareth-desktop ~]$ ls -a /etc/skel/
.  ..  .bash_logout  .bash_profile  .bashrc  .gnome2  .mozilla  .zshrc

(Names starting with a "." are hidden in Linux.)

I'm not a KDE user, so I don't know which files to copy. There may be directories with names like ~/.kde* or ~/.config/kde*. However just blindly copying them will give new users more of your settings and personal info than you want. The best bet is to create a temporary new user, do nothing but set KDE as you want it for new users (don't enter any personal details etc.), logout and copy the KDE configuration folders to /etc/skel. Then remove the temporary new user.

[murenti]

Many thanks I will give it a try with the fresh user settings as you suggested.

Enjoy your day