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Title: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on April 24, 2013, 04:54:42 PM
Having some issues with the launcher - I'm sure this is a rookie mistake and I think I've dealt with it before but for the life of me cannot remember what the solution was.

Menu bar shows on the side, not the top, and when I scroll past the last visible item, the whole thing disappears and all I have left is top menu.  No more launcher items.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: jnetman1 on April 25, 2013, 02:27:11 PM
If you want to use multi-user, start with a clean system and do the following from a terminal (ctrl-alt-t)

sudo cp -rv .local .gconf .config .network-autostart .dmrc /etc/skel/
sudo mkdir /etc/skel/{Desktop,Documents,Music,Pictures,Videos,Downloads}
sudo /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-set-defaults -s une-efl


On reboot everything should work, no matter which user logs in.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on April 29, 2013, 10:08:28 AM
Is that efl (L) or efi (I)?
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: jnetman1 on April 29, 2013, 12:41:48 PM
That's lowercase "L" :)
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on May 03, 2013, 04:19:19 PM
For users that already have logged in to another linux system their menu bars still show up on the side...

Where is that setting actually located?  I may have to do some login/logoff scripting to move those dirs so new ones get created from /etc/skel or something like that.  Or I batch remove them from the server...

We have a fair number of somewhat vanilla 10.04 lts systems, and those are the users that appear to have this issue.  so thinking what I'm hunting for is in .config or one of the other dot-file directories.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on May 03, 2013, 04:51:16 PM
apps->netbook-launcher-efl
change theme to nouveau.  set as mandatory.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: jnetman1 on May 03, 2013, 05:06:10 PM
That's one way to do it, although they won't be able to choose. The settings are in .dmrc and maybe a .xsession file.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on May 20, 2013, 07:33:45 AM
I've found that if the user scrolls down too far with a different theme that the launcher disappears and I can't get it back without restarting lightdm.  Making the nouveau or vouveau-hd theme mandatory solves that issue.
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: pyperdown on February 24, 2014, 12:57:34 PM
netbook-launcher-efl missing now (1.4 image) - any idea where it went?
Title: Re: Setting default launcher theme and orientation - system-wide for all users.
Post by: jnetman1 on February 28, 2014, 02:55:56 PM
Hmm. Nothing different on our end. Bad install perhaps?