-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri June 4 2004 20:46, Nathan Toone wrote: > Can you use variables within KDE Config files (~/.kde/share/config)? > > For example, I have 10 users, each of their usernames mirrors their jabber > ID. I want to include something like this in the kopeterc file: > AccountId=$USER@xxxxxxxxxx > > and use the same file as a template for each user (without having to > configure it for each one...) > > Is this possible? Yes, but you must explicitly indicate that such expansion should take place by adding [$e] to the key: AccountId[$e]=${USER}@domain.com See also http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#shell_expansion Cheers, Waldo - -- bastian@xxxxxxx | KDE Community World Summit 2004 | bastian@xxxxxxxx bastian@xxxxxxx | 21-29 August, Ludwigsburg, Germany | bastian@xxxxxxxx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAwbp7N4pvrENfboIRAncJAJ0cCRFDTQWWbc+iIMFXT3WsiH8aWACgmKPu Y6CFEKCQI8S0ENQvWMbUKdA= =6Lmw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.