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Subject: Re: [kde-linux] Different .kde files for different hosts
From: James Bigler <bigler () cs ! utah ! edu>
Date: 2005-08-29 20:33:53
Message-ID: 43137131.7070002 () cs ! utah ! edu
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Manuel Amador wrote:
> RTFM
>
> KDEHOME is the wrong variable for this. Use KDEDIRS and
> a /etc/profile.d script if you want to achieve layered configuration
> based on host name, or the moon phase.
>
> El jue, 25-08-2005 a las 18:37 -0700, James Richard Tyrer escribió:
>
>>Kevin Krammer wrote:
>>
>>>On Friday 26 August 2005 00:43, James Bigler wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I work at a place with many varied installations of Linux and conversely
>>>>KDE. My home directory is mounted via NFS on all these machines, so .kde is
>>>>shared between them.
>>>>
>>>>I'm having problems when I log into another machine that is running a
>>>>different version of KDE or has a different setup. For example my
>>>>workstation has dual monitors while many other machines do not. The .kde
>>>>directory gets shared between conflicting versions of KDE and things start
>>>>to go bad.
>>>>
>>>>I was wondering if there was a way to get KDE to look into different paths
>>>>based on the machine. That way I could have effectively a .kde-host1 and a
>>>>.kde-host2 and keep them separate.
>>>
>>>
>>>Yes, quite easily.
>>>KDE defaults to .kde in the user's home directory, but will take the directory
>>>the environment variable KDEHOME points to
>>>http://kde.ground.cz/tiki-index.php?page=Environment+Variables
>>
>>Yet another reason why we shouldn't store users data in the KDEHOME
>>directory. Or, perhaps we could also have a KDEDATA directory
>>environment directory and by default they could both be: "~/.kde".
>>
>>Here this user has a problem. If he has two different KDEHOMEs, where
>>does he put his mail, calendar, etc. data?
>>
I looked through the manual from the KDE help system, and I didn't even see a
mention of KDEDIRS. The only place I've been able to find it was the Wiki page.
If you could point to a particular piece of manual that describes what you
mean, I would appreciate it.
If I want my calendar and stuff to be shared (like the alarms), couldn't I
simply create soft links from ~/.kde-host1/share/apps/kalarm and
~/.kde-host2/share/apps/kalarm to ~/.kde-global/share/apps/kalarm?
James
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