Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?
Hi John,
I know you said you didn't think gconf had the lockdown functionality you
need, but it's all I use to lock down my student desktops, besides
standard Linux practices.
Here is some information I've gathered over time regarding Gnome desktop
lockdown in Ubuntu/LTSP/Edubuntu (This was just information I thought was
useful in my elementary student labs, and I know - some of this stuff is
of "ugly hack" status and might not all be completely tested for all
environments so be conscious of what you're doing):
Useful lockdown GConf keys: http://lns.wikidot.com/gconf
Clean up menus: http://lns.wikidot.com/gnomecleanupmenus
Custom menus: http://lns.wikidot.com/gnomecustommenus
Hide directories in Nautilus: http://lns.wikidot.com/nautilushidefilesystem
Mandatory Firefox homepage for all:
http://lns.wikidot.com/firefoxmandatoryhomepage
Lock down user home dirs: http://lns.wikidot.com/userdirsecurity
HTH,
Jordan
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I am getting complaints from teachers that students are customizing
> > their desktops to the point that they are distracting students from
> > productive work. I'd like to make the edubuntu desktop MUCH simpler,
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05-29-2008, 04:36 PM
dbclinton
Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?
On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:03 -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote:
> Hide directories in Nautilus: http://lns.wikidot.com/nautilushidefilesystem
Thanks for this. Is there any automatic way to make these folders
visible to the admin?
David
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05-29-2008, 05:15 PM
Jordan Erickson
Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?
AFAIK this is system-wide, independent of user/group membership.
GConf is like this for the most part, too (I wish it was more fine-grained).
Sincerely,
Jordan
dbclinton wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 23:03 -0700, Jordan Erickson wrote:
>> Hide directories in Nautilus: http://lns.wikidot.com/nautilushidefilesystem
>
> Thanks for this. Is there any automatic way to make these folders
> visible to the admin?
> David
>
>
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Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?
