Re: How to force a desktop configuration.

[Jeremy Winder <jwinder@logicalsi.com>]

Thank you, it helps a lot. Also, once I started to Google of Kiosk I
started to find the information I was looking for as well.

Thanks,

Jeremy

On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 16:52 +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Montag, den 18.05.2009, 09:49 -0400 schrieb Jeremy Winder:
> > I have a problem I'm hoping you all can help me solve. I need to lock
> > down my users' desktop configurations, background, window theme, default
> > icons, panel locations, Thunderbird configurations, etc. When it comes
> > right down to it, the users should not be able to make any configuration
> > changes; however, they should still be able to use the applications made
> > available to them.
> > 
> > I have thought about just moving the ~/.config, ~/.mozilla, etc
> > directories to some place outside their home directories then symlinking
> > them back in. But this seems "hackish" to me.
> > 
> > Is there a better solution?
> 
> Gnome: http://projects.gnome.org/sabayon/
> 
> KDE:
> http://techbase.kde.org/KDE_System_Administration/Kiosk/Introduction
> 
> and in Mozilla you can use the lockPref Option:
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Locking_preferences
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Noch einen schönen Tag
> 
>         Noèl Köthe
>