Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting the default save folder system-wide (Ubuntu 11.10)

On 11/23/2011 09:55 AM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:
> I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, so here is what I would do:
>
> Go to Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Path
>
> Then I would click on the "My Documents" path for 
> "/home/timothy/Documents" [timothy is my user "home" folder]
>
> You should be able to edit that page to any mounted drive/folder.  The 
> thing is you must make sure that the network drive, where that default 
> folder is, is mounted before you use LibreOffice.  I do not know what 
> would happen if that network-share folder is not mounted when LO 
> "asks" to use it.
You may need to modify fstab, I forget the instructions so that the 
network drive is mounted automatically. The Ubuntu forums have the 
instructions on how to do this. One trick is to label the drives with a 
label such as Fred so you can use the label not the UID when referring 
to the drive
> ---------
>
> May I ask, why you are deploying a Unity based desktops?  I tried it 
> and as a power user, I hated it.  I prefer GNOME 2.32 or KDE over 
> anything like Unity's desktop.
Gnome 3.2 is not bad particularly if you add a dock such as Docky
> On 11/23/2011 06:16 AM, jotab wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I am deploying Ubuntu 11.10 with LO 3.4.3 on a large number of 
> > computers. We
> > also mount a network share under /mnt/$USER/Share. I would like to 
> > set this
> > path, on a system-wide basis as the default save folder for LO. How 
> > can this
> > be done?
> >
> > Best regards Jon Lachmann
> >
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