[kubuntu-users] Kiosktool and KDEDIRS on Kubuntu?

[Jonathan Riddell]

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 08:35:15AM +0200, Erik Forsberg wrote:
> I usually use Kiosktool [1] to configure the desktop of my users. I
> then have a third party tool that sets the KDEDIRS environment
> variable to include the directory where kiosktool has placed its
> profile. 
> 
> This doesn't work with the KDE that ships with Kubuntu 5.10. KDE
> version is 3.4.3-0ubuntu5. Any ideas on why?
> 
> Assigning profiles via Kiosktool's "assign profile" feature works, but
> I don't want to use that, it doesn't fit well with the rest of my
> desktop configuration system.

kiosktool may not be able to save since it tries to ssh in as root to
copy the files.  You can edit /etc/kderc and /etc/kde-user-profile to
change which directories KDE will look in.

Jonathan