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Porting configuration from one system to another

redst011

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Saturday, October 20th 2007, 3:01pm

Porting configuration from one system to another

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I just recently started using KDE and would like to have the same configuration across three different systems that I commonly use. Each system does not have access to the other's $HOME, so sharing profiles is not an option.

I have found that if I copy ~/.kde, ~/.local, and ~/.config, I'll get most of the configuration and menu modifications that I have made, BUT, I have found that it's not complete. When I copy these folders to other systems and then start KDE, I find that most of the settings transfer, but not all. (For instance, in place of the system tray, I'm seeing another clock applet.)

Is there a fool-proof method of transferring configuration settings from one system to another without having to fix these inconsistencies?

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Monday, October 29th 2007, 9:27pm

I have had this problem every time I upgrade my system from one version of Linux to the next. I now have 18 desktops with different applications and web pages loaded. I really would like to keep these settings from Fedora Core 6 to Fedora 8 test 3. KDE is my preferred desktop.

My home directory is on a separate partition. So KDE settings are normally transferred across. But they don't seem to work across different versions of KDE.

Even now I'm trying to mount my /home directory as used by Fedora Core 6 and KDE, so that it can be used as is, with a fresh root installation partition of Fedora 8 test 3.

Ideally, I would like to be able to chose between booting FC6 or Fedora 8t3, using the same KDE desktop settings.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Edit:

I actually have got it all working now. I had backed up my /home directory to another partition, which was good, because I managed to wipe it out. It was mounted under two different mount points. I deleted one, and hey presto my /home/user partition disappeared as well!

KDE did work for the first few times. Then I lost the background and any right-clicks for the mouse.

So I copied my safely backed-up /home/user directory to my live home dir again. There were a couple of links that were dangling that I deleted. I'm not sure if these were causing any problems. Anyway, I have booted up Fedora Core 6 and after that Fedora 8 test 3, both from the same shared /home/user partition. I'm getting the same desktop under Fedora 8 test 3 now as I did with FC6.

Thanks guys. And a special thanks to all the developers at KDE :-)

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "CD-RW" (Oct 29th 2007, 10:31pm)