Changing the group mode shortcut location
Before you begin
Set the primary group for each user to the group that is sharing the instance of the group Installation Manager. If the primary group is not set, the user must run chgrp to change the group that is associated with the user’s installed files.
About this task
Procedure
To set environment variables before you install Installation Manager or before you use the installer:
- Open a command-line utility.
- Define the environment variable $XDG_CONFIG_HOME with a value to a writable directory location for the menu files. Example: $export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=/var/shortcuts
- Define the environment variable $XDG_DATA_HOME with a value to a writable directory location for the desktop and directory files. Example: $export XDG_DATA_HOME=/var/shortcuts
What to do next
If you did not set the environment variables before you install Installation Manager, you can copy the shortcuts from their default location to a different location. Choose a location that is suitable to your desktop environment and is accessible by all users.
- Menu (.menu) files:
/application_data_path/desktop/.config/menus/applications-merged
and
/application_data_path/desktop/.config/menus/kde-applications-merged - Desktop (.desktop) files:
/application_data_path/desktop/.local/share/applications
- Directories (.directory) files:
/application_data_path/desktop/.local/share/desktop-directories