After installing an Xubuntu system on a computer, it is advisable to create separate user accounts different from the account with admin rights resulting from the installation itself.
But some basic settings are less than optimum after installation, etc:
- I want to lock the keys CapsLock and Insert (what is the overtype mode good for? It only creates trouble, like CapsLock) and the key combinations Alt-delete and Alt-insert (delete or create additional workplace),
- In the terminal's settings, the color for highlighted text is dark and with very low contrast to the black background, I also want to be able to roll back say 6000 lines, the size of a newly opened terminal should also be broader, say 130 characters,
- Thunar should always begin in the details view, Catfish shall be installed and be callable from Thunar, the columns should be in this order: size, change date, name, owner, group, access rights, display the dates in ISO form rather today/yesterday and so on.
- I want different themes and finetunings for the desktop,
- associate a couple of shortcuts for screenshots (with rectangular range, active window, full screen, full screen - delayed, screenshot to file with automatic name in ISO date format)
- Install some essential plugins into Firefox (uBlock origin, no Script, New Tab Redirect, Tab Cookie Remover, KeePassXC Browser) and apply some settings to it,
- Increase the number of work spaces to two, install a workspace switcher and some other tools on the task bar, configure meters for network activity, cpu/memory/swap usage and so on.
- The settings for automatically started programs shall become effective for other users.
All these configuration steps leave their traces somewhere in or below /home/<installation user>/.config
. Cloning this whole directory to a second, third, ... user has the disadvantage that there are quite some references in the cloned files which have to be adapted from /home/<installation user>
to /home/<second user and so on>
. Also cloning has to be done with sudo
from a command line or by calling pkexec thunar
. The copied .config
and all its content belong to root:root
then and this has to be mended also.
Is there a more elegant way which is recommended for configuring subsequent user accounts after Installation avoiding repetitive work for each of them?
Or has someone already made a script which performs all the adaptations in configuration files exchanging the installation user to the to be configured new user? (see above what has to be done).
sudo
? 🤔