Hey, I've got a quick KDE hack that you can use to enable a common desktop on KDE. Basically it stores your kde profile and desktop preferences zipped on the smartcard. I'll release a new version of smart_tx tomorrow that will create the file if it is not there. Basically all you have to do is the following: gzip ~/.kderc tar -cvf ~/Desktop gzip ~/Desktop.tar ./smart_tx .kderc.gz /3f00/00dd ./smart_tx Desktop.tar.gz /3f00/00db This will transfer the files to your smartcard And add this to your startkde script under /opt/kde/bin #!/bin/sh # # DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( KDE-1.1 ) # # initialize the configuration first. /homes/corcordt/sources/pcsc/test/smart_rx /3F00/00db /tmp/Desktop.tar.gz /homes/corcordt/sources/pcsc/test/smart_rx /3F00/00dd /tmp/.kderc.gz gunzip /tmp/Desktop.tar.gz gunzip /tmp/.kderc.gz mv -f /tmp/.kderc ~/ rm -rf ~/Desktop tar -xvf /tmp/Desktop.tar ~/ rm -f /tmp/Desktop.tar Make sure the Resource Manager is running and you have a rudimentary common desktop on any kde machine with this script. Of course you could make it alot better but this is quick : ) Sorry about the 3 posts to the list - majordomo was sick. Thanks Dave ************************************************************* David Corcoran Internet Security/Smartcards Home: Purdue University 2252 US Highway 52 West Department of Computer Science West Lafayette, IN 47906 CERIAS/COAST Laboratory Home: (765) 463-2455 Cell: (317) 514-4797 http://www.linuxnet.com ************************************************************* *************************************************************** Linux Smart Card Developers - M.U.S.C.L.E. (Movement for the Use of Smart Cards in a Linux Environment) http://www.linuxnet.com/smartcard/index.html ***************************************************************
