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I have my desktop set up how I like it for my admin (root) user (Cinnamon)

I want to create a non-admin account, but keep the same desktop setup as the root.

How to do this?

Thanks in advance.

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  • Is this an official distro of Ubuntu?That is, did you install the Cinnamon DE yourself?
    – nanofarad
    Nov 3, 2012 at 23:55
  • Define "same desktop setup".
    – DanMan
    Nov 3, 2012 at 23:59
  • I installed Ubuntu, then added Cinnanmon myself.
    – het
    Nov 4, 2012 at 0:00
  • "same desktop setup" to me means having the same desktop look as the root user has, but when logging in as just a regular non-root user.
    – het
    Nov 4, 2012 at 0:06
  • Ubuntu dosen't have a root user Nov 4, 2012 at 3:19

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I'm assuming you mean the account with sudo access when you say root.

Its pretty simple where you want to copy userone's account to usertwo - create a new account (usertwo), copy over the contents of /home/userone to /home/usertwo (with sudo cp, to handle permissions issues), then sudo chown -R usertwo /home/usertwo to give ownership of the directory to the new user.

If you want all users to have the same initial account setup, I believe setting /etc/skel appropriately will do the trick

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  • JG - yes, you are correct. I tried to copy the files over, but it won't allow me to paste them over.
    – het
    Nov 4, 2012 at 3:35
  • did you use sudo to copy over? Nov 4, 2012 at 3:39
  • No. I don't know how.
    – het
    Nov 4, 2012 at 3:40
  • If I need to enter the admin PW to use SUDO, then I'm not logged in as admin?
    – het
    Nov 4, 2012 at 3:51
  • not really, it just means you're in the sudoers account and temporarily got your priviledges bumped up Nov 4, 2012 at 4:55

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