Standardizing the look of all user CDE Frontpanel

[Joshua Goi]

Hi,

One of the my user logins has a different frontpanel from the rest of the user logins. How do I make it to have the same icons and subpanels as other logins? Is there a a file or a group of files I can copy over to the user directory? Thanks!

[Brian Bergstrand]

If you want all users to have the same icons and menu entries, copy the .dt and icon files to the system wide store in /etc/dt/appconfig.

Icons will be in the "./icons/C" directory. And menu/panel entries will be in the "./types/C" directory. You can also have a system wide dt resource file in /etc/dt/config/C/sys.dtwmrc.

These resources are are shared by all users.

HTH.

[Joshua Goi]

Thanks for the reply, Brian. I'm quite new to hp-ux so hope you can bear with me.

The situation is that one of my users (using login: user1) has one of frontpanel icons changed to something else. And not only there's a different icon, it's corresponding subpanel is different too. What we really want to do here is to make the user1 frontpanel and it's corresponding subpanel back to it's original state. The rest of the user logins happen to still have the original frontpanel. So I was thinking is there any files that I can copy from the rest of the users to restore user1's frontpanel (to it's original state)?

[Brian Bergstrand · Accepted solution]

I see, in that case, just rename the users type and icon directories in their home directory.

cd ~user1
cd .dt
mv types save.types
mv icons save.icons

Then have the user restart their CDE session. The system files will now be in effect, since the user specific files are no longer overriding them.

BTW, I would recommended against deletion, in case something screws up. After you've verified everything, then you can remove the save.* directories.

HTH.

[Joshua Goi]

Worked like magic! Thanks Brian :)