Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Default desktop configuration XFCE 4.12 (Ubuntu 16.04)

Migrating my standard "teaching room" build of Ubuntu (with the xubuntu package installed, so possibly I should describe it as Xubuntu) from 14.04 to 16.04.  I've found several differences, including this one

The default desktop configuration file is no longer

 /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml

but is instead

 /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-desktop.xml

In order to provide every user with the same default desktop I copy in a version of the first file. Under 16.04 the user's background is the default XFCE wallpaper.  So now I copy in the second file and everything is as it was.