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To: ShadowAce

Thanks. I didn’t do a separate home directory the last few times I installed. I got lazy.

Does your script install the programs and then set the preferences or settings and set it up how you like? For instance, I have a mouse gesture program that takes a lot of personal settings for instance d rawing a “c” will “close window” or “pull up the calculator “, andmthere are like 20 or so custom settings that I have to redo everytime I reinstall.


43 posted on 06/09/2022 9:08:55 AM PDT by Bob434 (.)
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To: Bob434

It can. Probably the easiest way to do it would be to set it up manually the first time, them copy the configuration file to /home/Bob434/configs/ or something like that, then you can just copy it into the correct location when you run the script.


45 posted on 06/09/2022 9:23:15 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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To: Bob434
I didn’t do a separate home directory the last few times I installed. I got lazy.

Laziness is exactly why I set it up this way. If I don't have to re-configure everything in /home/Shadow/.config then I won't.

47 posted on 06/09/2022 9:28:28 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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