Here's one for Linux wizards! I would like to automount home directories on all our machines. Technically, not an issue (not any longer! -- I had severe technical problems trying it a few years back). But here's a desktop-level problem , which I am scratching my head over. Different machines have different screen sizes and resolutions, which screws up my desktop icon groupings. Plus, family likes to have different desktop backgrounds on different machines.
As far as I can see, I need .kde and .local to be machine specific. How do I achieve that?
I tried the simplistic approach of symlinking the appropriate host-named directores in .bash_profle (rm -f .kde;ln -s $HOSTNAME.kde .kde), but that does not work -- KDE gets there first. I could set them up as symbolic links to somewhere in the local /opt (havent' tried that one yet), but that seems inelegant, creating /opt user dependencies.
Is there a smart way of doing this?