Xfce4-panel default layout without asking a user (during the first login)

Question

I need some help. I have two classes with onetomany relationship:

@Entity
public class Parent extends Model{

  @Id
  public Long id;

  @OneToMany(fetch = FeatchType.LAZY, cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval = true)
  public List<Child> children;

}

and

@Entity
public class Child extends Model{

  @Id
  public Long id;

}

So when i call remove() Child entity do not remove from DB.

Parent parent = Parent.find.byId(id);
parent.children.remove(parent.children.get(0));
parent.save();

And next time I find.byId - all children is there, like they never been deleted :(

Play 2.0.4, inMemory database.

Please make me know if any other informaition is needed.

Solution 1

Create a temporary user (eg test) and log in as that user. Configure xfce-panel as you would like it to be for all new users.

These settings should be in:

~/.config/xfce4/

Copy this whole tree to:

/etc/skel/

So that you have:

/etc/skel/.config/xfce4/

Now (hopefully) all your new users will have the same default xfce4-panel settings.

Solution 2

Both answers so far advocate for putting default files below /etc/skel. That is a generic place only used to populate user's home directories when they get created using useradd.

But you might have existing users, or centralised users with NIS/NFS. If you want to change XFCE defaults for anyone who hasn't started it yet, put your files below /etc/xdg.

Solution 3

see: https://askubuntu.com/a/1205840/1093368

The defaults for the panel is stored in /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml. So to restore that default, just do:

cp /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

I'm using ansible to prepare the user configuration with the following tasks:

  - name: Ensure directory for default panel configuration exists
    become: no
    ansible.builtin.file:
      path: ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
      state: directory
      recurse: yes

  - name: Use default panel configuration
    become: no
    ansible.builtin.copy:
      src: /etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/default.xml
      dest: ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-panel.xml

Comments

[stian]

updated answer is really a new answer.. anyway, please try it!

[Dfire]

Oh! Thanks a lot! It alive!