Change default new user theme and background?

[George Farris]

On Tue, 2004-21-12 at 08:26 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <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.

Yes, thanks Jeff. I actually found this by tooling around in the gconf
settings but it's nice to have an answer on the list for reference.

-- 
George Farris   farrisg at mala.bc.ca
Network and Technical Services
Malaspina University-College