CentOS - Jun 2015 - using rsync to sync desktop /home/user of to laptop /home/user

Antonio, thank you for reply.

On 06/16/2015 12:22 PM, Antonio S. Martins Jr. wrote:
> ----- "g" <geleem at bellsouth.net> escreveu:
<<>>
>> greetings,
>>
>> i want to sync my desktop home directory to my laptop home 
>> directory. i am using KDE for desktop.
>>
>> a problem that i foresee is the different screens between the 2.
>>
>> i synced using;
>>
>> rsync -a -u -v -e ssh /home/geo geo at 192.168.1.5:/home/geo.new
>>
>> with intent of in laptop's /home;
>>
>> mv geo geo.org mv geo.new geo
>>
>> what files and directories in 'org' directory need to be copied
to
>> the 'new' directory so that i will maintain screen setup in 
>> laptop?
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm using unison (http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/) to do
> this.  It can sync in both ways if files are changed on both sides
> between syncs.
i did not recognize the site, but when i connected to it and started
to bookmark it, i saw that i already had it bookmarked.

in checking, i found that it was from 2009-0514-09:08 pm when i ran
a search for backup and recovery sites.

i pulled the docs and tar file to check out later.
> And, IMHO it's better to filter out the directories that contain
> configuration for the systems, or better, sync only the documents and
> other pertinent files.
i agree, and i have already started writing scripts for both desktop
and laptop to sync just the common, _non_unique_ directories and files.

so, back to my original question, worded differently.

what directories and files should not be copied so that configs for
desktop/laptop do not corrupt configs for laptop/desktop screen?

i am presuming that '.KDE' is one of them, and what else?

i can got thru all directories and files, which would take time and
is what i am wanting to avoid. call me lazy. ;-)


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g
.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:44:43PM -0500, g wrote:
> what directories and files should not be copied so that configs for
> desktop/laptop do not corrupt configs for laptop/desktop screen?
Maybe you need to be clearer.  The screen's configuration is not
really configured in your home directory, but by X (although these
days it's all autoprobed).

Are you talking about what icons appear?  The configuration for KDE? 

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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

thank you for replying Johanthan.

On 06/16/2015 02:52 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 02:44:43PM -0500, g wrote:
>> what directories and files should not be copied so that configs for
>> desktop/laptop do not corrupt configs for laptop/desktop screen?
>
> Maybe you need to be clearer.  The screen's configuration is not
> really configured in your home directory, but by X (although these
> days it's all autoprobed).
>
> Are you talking about what icons appear?  The configuration for KDE?
.
also, thank you for kicking my chemo brain in the butt. ;-)

yes, i forgot about X being the wise and wondrous now.

iirc, there used to be a file under /etc/X11 that had specs for
keyboard, mouse, graphics card, monitor, language, etc, that one
could make custom changes to if needed. several years back that
got changed with auto probe. yes/no?

therefore, my only real concern would be for progs like firefox,
thunderbird and what else that is not standard with distrib, and
have special files in /lib, /lib64, etc. y/n?

as for icons and KDE configs, icons should be same as they are
under /usr/share and i do want to have same/similar desktop window
settings.

long story to short, just try it. y/n?


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peace out.

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If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes...
 ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it!
--
in a world with out fences, who needs gates.
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CentOS GNU/Linux 6.6

tc,hago.

g
.