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Re: [PLUG] Knoppix / startup / /etc/skel question
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On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 05:55:17PM -0500, Jon Nelson wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have remastered my own version of Knoppix and am running into a
> problem with trying to customize Firefox and KDE.
>
> Everything I have read say to boot to KDE in a chrroted enviroment make
> your changes to KDE and then exit. Then move the knoppix home dir
> to /etc/skel. I have done this and made sure the perms were correct ,
> but it had no effect. With KDE I have been able to add buttons to the
> panel by following the above procedure, but leaving the .kde folder
> in /home/knoppix.
>
> This however doesn't work when I try to change to default behavior for
> what happens when a thumb drive is inserted (K->Control
> Center->Peripherials->Storage Media). When you make a change here it is
> stored in the file .kde/share/config/medianotifierrc, which is not
> present if no changes have been made. When I boot into Knoppix this
> file is no longer there, but is still in /etc/skel.
>
> With Firefox I am trying to set the home page and I have the same
> results with the above procedure. It is also suggested that
> the .mozilla dir is copied to /usr/share/knoppix/profile, but this has
> no effect either.
>
> The file that supposedly controls the transfering of all these files at
> startup is /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession. It's a pretty long bash
> script that has a few rsync commands in it. All of them use
> --ignore-existing which should leave any exiting files alone in the
> target dir, right?
>
> If I chroot into my Knoppix dir and startx from there everything works
> like a champ.
>
> To try to get around this problem I added a couple of commands to
> my /home/knoppix/.bash_profile, but still no joy.
>
> Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Jon
If you have not heard of Debian-Live then it might be worth checking
out. It helps streamline the creation of debian live distributions.
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive
irc://irc.oftc.net/#debian-live
They even have a knoppix package list, so as to make a live system
similar to Knoppix.
(apologies if this email is a duplicate (just fixed a "should have
googled before messing with exim" configuration error))
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