By default, the group mode shortcuts are stored in the IBM® Installation Manager application
data location. To copy shortcuts to a different location, you must
first set environment variables before you install Installation
Manager on Linux, UNIX, IBM z/OS®,
and OS X computers. This task is designed for moving shortcuts to
a location that is accessible by all of the users in a group. However,
you can set environment variables before you install Installation
Manager in
administrator or nonadministrator modes to change shortcut locations.
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
Installation
Manager supports
only submenus and desktop icons for GNOME2 and KDE3 desktop environments.
Installation
Manager supports
creation of submenus in accordance to the desktop menu specifications
provided by
freedesktop.org, see
http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/.
Note: Shortcuts
are not visible on AIX® or other
platforms where GNOME2 or KDE3 are not used as the desktop environment.
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
Install
Installation
Manager in group
mode. For more information about installing in group mode silently, see
Install Installation Manager silently.
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.
Default locations for
group mode shortcuts on supported platforms:
- 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