Re: Setup for lab usage

[Mike Miller]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 07:27:17 -0700, Morph wrote:
> Thanks Mike,
> 
> I did see that I could use that for 'auto' functioning things like
> installing or loading of modules. That will help with that part. But how
> would I redirect the user's profile?
> 
> For example, right now by default, it will save the profile to
> C:\users\username\.config\octave\qt-settings
> 
> What I'd like to do on a global scale is force all the user's Octave
> settings to P:\homedrive\username\data
> 
> In our environment the P:\ drive is the user's personal space on the
> network.  And it would be preferred to have them all redirected to this
> location.

Oh, so you are asking about the GUI settings, not the standard startup
scripts?

The GUI only loads and stores its preferences in one place, which is
based on the user's home directory location.

A future version of Octave might use the Qt "AppConfigLocation" storage
path, which looks like it allows settings to be read from a system-wide
location. But there is no way to point the per-user configuration
elsewhere at the moment.

-- 
mike