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Does anybody know how to apply a customized user settings to other existing or new users?. Something like a customized preferences settings for system wide so that everybody posses those settings and below will explain in clear what I actually ment.

On every machine I will install the following:

Eclipse
Mysql Query Browser and Admin
Mysql Workbench
Oracle VirtualBox
Thunderbird
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If I install them by apt, this will automatically create shortcuts in Applications but when I build them from source or extract the tar ball, I will have to add New Item at it's relevant place going to System-->Preferences-->Main Menu to make them available as a shortcuts and this settings are applied only for the account I login and perform them. How could I make this preferences settings for complete system wide which applies for all users? or if there is a way to apply a customized user settings to other users will also be ok. Any hint please?

Thank you!

user3215
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There are many different kinds of system preferences that are stored in different ways. So answering your broad question is difficult, but here's the answer to the specific question:

When you use the menu editor to create new shortcuts, it works by creating desktop files which get placed in the user's/home/$USER/.local/share/applications/ directory. This will only add it to the menu of the user used to create the menu item. For the menu item to be accesable system-wide, you can put the desktop file in /usr/local/share/applications/

You could find the desktop file created by the menu editor and move it, or you could just create a file under /usr/local/share/applications/ manually. Here's a sample file, terminator.desktop:

[Desktop Entry]
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;
Comment=Multiple terminals in one window
Exec=terminator
Icon=terminator
Name=Terminator
Type=Application

Replace the values with those appropriate for your application.

andrewsomething
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