On Wed, 2007-08-22 at 23:19 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Can anybody suggest an easy method to put a link to a file on all > current user's Gnome desktops? > > More specifically, I have a PDF instructions file I want to put a link > to on all user's Gnome desktop on a machine. [...]
Hello, This should do the trick: # for dir in /home/*; do ln -s /usr/local/share/doc/instructions.pdf $dir/Desktop/ Of course, you may want to make sure that /home/* matches only real home directories (there may be /home/lost+found if you have a separate /home partition) and e.g. replace it with `cat listfile` where 'listfile' contains the names of home directories. Also, adding 'mkdir $dir/Desktop' can be necessary if some users have not run GNOME/KDE yet. If you want future users to have this link, too, make a 'Desktop' directory in /etc/skel and put a similar symlink there. /etc/skel directory contents are copied to the new home directory when you create a user with 'adduser' or 'useradd -m -k'. > (Perhaps this is very much similar to the concept of All Users desktop > in Windows XP.) I am not aware of an analogous concept in GNOME or others... Looks much a Microsoft way, forcing users to have something on the desktop that's not theirs and what they can not remove. Good luck! -- Krzysztof Lubanski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
