Luuk,
> I wanted to set up a basic Gnome setup which will be tailored
> to what they need
> to use.
> Does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to get past
> this without
> manually creating the gnome setup from scratch?
Have you heard of the /etc/skel directory? When you set up a new user, it
should copy the contents of /etc/skel to the new users home directory (and
change the permissions).
I would suggest setting up a user they way you want all your other users
setup and then copying the relevant configuration files to /etc/skel.
# cp /home/username/.gnome* /etc/skel
# chown -R root:root /etc/skel/.gnome*
When you add the user use the -m option to copy the contents of /etc/skel to
the new users home directory. See man useradd.
Good luck
David Kirk
