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There are 3 basic scenarios when you want to modify default settings:
* You are system administrator and get a dozen new users every day. You want the new users to have certain settings that are not default for a KDE Plasma Desktop
* You are system administrator and want to change the desktop or system settings of all your users. Logging in as each user and do the changes in [[Special:myLanguage/System_Settings|System Settings]] is not an option.
* You have several KDE desktop machines: maybe a computer at work behind a proxy, a machine at home and some virtual machines for testing. You re-setup computers frequently and want your settings to be rolled out identically afterwards

In any case you will have to make changes to the setting files in ~/.kde or ~/.kde4 or /usr/local/share or /usr/share. 

== /etc/skel ==
When a new user is created, the content from /etc/skel is copied to his home directory. If you want to change the settings for all future users, just change the files in /etc/skel.

== Examples ==
To change the default browser, use the program [[Special:myLanguage/System_Settings|System Settings]]. However, there are situations where you cannot call '''systemsettings'''. In this case you can use the following script. It changes the default browser to Firefox:

{{Input|1=<nowiki>#!/bin/bash
# This file sets up a computer as tstaerk likes it. Call it after you have performed the OS installation.</nowiki><br /><nowiki>
# 1. set default browser to firefox
# 1.1. for SUSE Linux, where we have to look in .kde4 instead of .kde
# The key for default browser is BrowserApplication.
cd
cd .kde4/share/config
# first delete all the old entries for BrowserApplication
sed -i 's/BrowserApplication\[\$e\]=.*//g' kdeglobals
# add BrowserApplication to the General section if a General section exists
sed -i 's/\[General\]/\[General\]\nBrowserApplication\[\$e\]=!firefox/g' kdeglobals
# add a General section and the key BrowerserApplication if no General section exists
grep "\[General\]" kdeglobals || echo -e "\n[General]\nBrowserApplication[\$e]=!firefox" >> kdeglobals</nowiki>}}

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