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Hi @jhgoebbert, it should be possible to do this using the new (still experimental) workspaces feature in JupyterLab, which is still under-documented.

Briefly, you would manually go to a particular set of notebooks on GitHub, and configure the main work area in the way you want. Then, navigate the URL to /lab/workspaces/yourworkspacenamehere. This will cache the configuration to ~/.jupyter/lab/workspaces on your filesystem. That workspace file can be used to seed a new instance of a JupyterHub user.

I don't think it will be easy to override the behavior of the "Home" button, since that is meant to be the repository root, and logic for that is pretty baked into the file browser.

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Hi Ian,

perfekt ... generating the workspace-file works great!
Now, how would I have to start jupyterlab to have this workspace-file (moved to a global position on the system) been used?

Can it be added as an argument to the "jupyter lab ..." command?

Best,
Jens Henrik

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I have not experimented with the much myself, but I believe that you can place the workspace file in the users ~/.jupyter/lab/workspaces upon image creation time, and then send them to the same workspaces URL as above when they launch lab. That is, their default URL would be lab/workspaces/yourworkspacename.

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Ahh ... I see.
Best would be if the jupyter command would be able to copying global setting to the user local config files. If not I will see if we add this to the spawner.
Thanks for your help!

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For myself, I'd just like to be able to configure a default_user so that when a user first opens the GitHub Tab they're greeted with a listing of the LearnPython organisation:

...rather than the blank <Edit User> template:

Would that be possible without using workspaces which seems a bit of a heavyweight solution to the problem.

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