Default desktop configuration?

[Erik Harrison]

On 12/3/06, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I work as a sysadmin in South France, and I'm currently installing a
> customized desktop environment on many machines here, replacing Windows
> 98 or XP by Slackware 11.0 with XFCE 4.4RC2 built from source.
>
> Q: where does XFCE's default configuration come from? E. g. when running
> XFCE the first time, the launcher is centered, there are a few entries
> for Terminal, Thunar, etcetera. No desktop background, but "Tips and
> Tricks" is activated. Now I wonder how I could possibly change that. As
> far as I could make out, there's a .config directory in every user's
> home which defines all that. Where does this get it's default values from?

In general, $prefix/etc/xdg

So on my system, where Xfce is installed in /usr, I have these directories

/usr/etc/xdg/Thunar
/usr/etc/xdg/autostart
/usr/etc/xdg/xfce4
/usr/etc/xdg/xfce4-session
/usr/etc/xdg/xfmedia

>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki Kovacs
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Erik

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