Re: gnome-volume-manager settings



On Wednesday 19 December 2007 04:47:47 Shaun McCance wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 21:55 +1030, Ian wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 December 2007 21:25:34 Ian Collier wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 09:06:24PM +1030, Ian wrote:
> > > > I'm deploying a group of workstations running opensuse & gnome. The
> > > > gnome-volume-manager is set by default to make banshee run when an
> > > > audio CD is inserted. I need to disable this (as a default) so that
> > > > users can run grip instead without banshee loading. I can do this for
> > > > one user in the control panel using the "Removable Drives & Media"
> > > > settings, but I can't seem to find where that setting is stored so I
> > > > can copy it to /etc/skel to make it the default setting. Can anyone
> > > > please point me in the right direction?
> > >
> > > In my experience, configuring system defaults for all users in GNOME
> > > requires jumping through ridiculous hoops.  I'd be glad to be proved
> > > wrong.
> > >
> > :lol:
> > :
> > > However, if you are looking for files to put in /etc/skel then
> > > ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/%gconf.xml might actually work.
> > >
> > > imc
> >
> > It looks like that file has the setting I need -  I'll give it try
> > in /etc/skel. Thanks for the quick reply :-)
>
> Rather than dumping files in /etc/skel, you could just take
> advantage of the fact that GConf has a built-in mechanism
> for setting default and mandatory settings for all users.
>
> Check out the section on GConf in the admin guide:
> http://library.gnome.org/admin/system-admin-guide/stable/gconf-0.html.en
>
> And here's how to work with default and mandatory settings
> using the Configuration Editor:
> http://library.gnome.org/users/gconf-editor/stable/defaults-mandatory.html.
>en
>
> If you're doing a lot of customizations, you might want to
> check out Sabayon:
> http://www.gnome.org/projects/sabayon/
>
> --
> Shaun

Thanks, I'll check that out too - it sounds pretty cool, could be just what I 
need.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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