Backing up or copying a user's gnome desktop settings?

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:32 PM, Nathan <na at rtfm.net> wrote:
< Hi all,
>
> What is the best way to back up, or copy to another machine, a user's
> desktop settings? This would include the gnome/gtk theme, the gnome
> panels and their configuration and session startup files.
>
> It looks like the settings are stored all over the place -- ~/.config,
> ~/.gnome2, ~/.gconf and so forth. I have been unable to find a
> description of what's what here -- perhaps my Google-fu is just weak.
> My goal is simply to identify the set of files which describe the
> user's gnome desktop environment, but no more than that -- i.e. I do
> not want to copy the entire home directory.

I wonder if you'd get a better answer on the gnome lists.  I don't
know the right answer but I'd be interested in finding out if you do
get one.  I've never completely transferred everything I've wanted to
without just taking the whole works and deleting what I know doesn't
apply... Please do post back if you get a good answer.

Brian

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