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Thanks NN, I tried your method. It worked well
but I had to do cd ~/.config first. Then, I was able to see xfce4 and do the copy and paste. But I can't get there via Thunar directly from the home directory, because I can't see .config that way. Still, this worked well once I was in the .config folder.
I would do the operations just by copying and pasting the files in Thunar opened as a root - by right click and choosing the root option, or by opening Thunar by the commands in the terminal: sudo su ---> [ password ] ---> thunarThese will open Thunar with admin privileges for me to copy and paste necessary files. I don't know whether this way is really elegant, but for me it is easier and faster as I am a former Win-user and got accustomed to do such things like this - without too complicated terminal commands.
2a. Replace this new user's ~/.config/xfce4 folder with the existing user's ~/.config/xfce4 folder. I did this as follows using these two commands but I'm sure there's a more elegant way to do it:Code: [Select]sudo rm -r /home/newuser/.config/xfce4sudo cp -r /home/mainuser/.config/xfce4 /home/newuser/.config/.
sudo rm -r /home/newuser/.config/xfce4sudo cp -r /home/mainuser/.config/xfce4 /home/newuser/.config/.
sudo chown -R newuser:newuser /home/newuser/.config/xfce4