Hi Phillipp, A lack of a master config or a "apply for all users" switch for OO is a major fault with OO in my opinion. I've ended up creating a template instance of OO with all the correct settings and then brute force copying it over the top of user settings at log in. This means they can't save any personal settings for OO, but I haven't found a better way yet. Maybe someone else here can give us a better method. Below is a snippet that I put into the file /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default to accomplish the task:
#creates the directories ahead of time so that the following scripts always have a place to go, otherwise you have to wait until the user opens and closes OO once sa=/home/STUDENTS/$u/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/ sw=/home/STUDENTS/$u/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/ sy=/home/STUDENTS/$u/.openoffice.org2/ mkdir -p $sa mkdir -p $sw #copies msformats from template file to users home directory, but only works after #OO has been opened once cp -f /var/oofficeDefaults/Setup.xcu /home/STUDENTS/$u/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Setup.xcu cp -f /var/oofficeDefaults/Common.xcu /home/VANGUARD/$u/.openoffice.org2/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Common.xcu chown -R $USER $sy What a messy kludge! HTH, John On 8/4/07, Philipp Hanselmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I will define some default configurations in OpenOffice, which should be > vailid for all user. For example the measurement units in calc/writer should > be cm instead of inch. > For me it looks like I have to find the default templates in writer/calc and > open these template with OpenOffice and save it to the right place. > > After that, if you open a new writer document the settings get applied. But > the question is, which templates get used by default? > > Or is there an other way? > > Philipp > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users > -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
