Change default new user theme and background?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="George Farris">

> At the College we would like to change the default theme and background
> for new users.  Can someone explain where these are set from please?

They're GConf settings, under:

  /desktop/gnome/background and /desktop/gnome/interface

The best place to set these is /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults, which you can
do with gconftool-2 or gconf-editor.

- Jeff

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