OK, so I have a desktop and a laptop that are both running 64-bit Fedora 14. The desktop has three screens and is using Xinerama, the laptop only has one...
I would really like to copy my gnome configurations from the desktop to the laptop - allowing me to (hopefully) have a seamless experience between the two machines. If possible, I would even like to copy the packages (and their configs) from one machine to another and then set up some way to sync them during the day...
I'm not looking to make a major project out of doing this, just wanting to know if either part is feasible and if there are any (relatively) simple ways of going about it w/out totally borking one machine or the other.
Thanks, Michael Haworth
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On 5/10/2011 11:40 AM, Haworth, Michael A. wrote:
I'm not looking to make a major project out of doing this, just wanting to know if either part is feasible and if there are any (relatively) simple ways of going about it w/out totally borking one machine or the other.
I'm not ENTIRELY sure that this is even feasible. Copying files form Desktop to Laptop is one thing, but configuration (Gnome level ) is doable. but your X-setup won't be feasible. Laptop is 1 screen, Desktop's 3 and that'll seriously bork your configuration.
What i used to do is run a rsync for my personal files in /home/jbrouhard and sync them back and forth all the time. Boot up usually synced for me (nice little login script). Beyond that, configurations can vary wildly from laptop to desktop due to technology used (I'm talking hardware.. it's fairly hard to match hardware in a desktop to a laptop LOL)
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:40, Haworth, Michael A. Michael_Haworth@pas-technologies.com wrote:
OK, so I have a desktop and a laptop that are both running 64-bit Fedora 14. The desktop has three screens and is using Xinerama, the laptop only has one…
I'm not sure what thas has to do with your gnome conf.
I would really like to copy my gnome configurations from the desktop to the laptop – allowing me to (hopefully) have a seamless experience between the two machines. If possible, I would even like to copy the packages (and their configs) from one machine to another and then set up some way to sync them during the day…
What 'seams' are you seeing? If you just, literally, mean gnome and nautilus' settings, check out the . dirs in your homedir. All gnome config is backed in hidden files/dirs there.
Let the system sit for a couple minutes, with nothing else running. Then make your changes and only your changes, and immediately use gnu find to identify the places in your homedir that changed in the last 5 minutes. a la: [bcrook@Cleveland ~]$ find ~ -cmin -5 /home/bcrook/.ssh /home/bcrook/.ssh/authorized_keys
(this box, I had just added a key to while writing this email.)
Once you know what files are changing, take a look at the whole dir that contains them, and see if it might make sense to sync that whole dir.
Additionally of note: You might be interested in setting up synergy2 over ssh, so that your desktop's mouse and keyboard, can control your laptop when it is online, on the same network as the desktop. The mouse pointer literally drifts right off the edge of your desktop onto the laptop. How's that for seamless?
Once you have key-based passwordless ssh set up between them, and synergy2 working via CLI, if you're interested, I'll dig up and post my synergy "daemon" script that reconnects automatically as soon as the laptop is available on wifi.
I’m not looking to make a major project out of doing this, just wanting to know if either part is feasible and if there are any (relatively) simple ways of going about it w/out totally borking one machine or the other.
You might also look at the gnome-conduit program, but I think it has more to do with synchronizing user content, not gnome settings. It's been a while since I looked at it though.
And if you want really awesome news, know that whatever you set up now, will be/is already obsolete, because I'm sure the current gnome stores things WAY differently than Gnome2.
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