Desktop Lockdown

jjfate · 03-03-2005, 06:32 PM

Is there a way to disable right click on the desktop? This is a gnome environment. I have lookd through gconf, but I have been unable to find anything to lock down this feature. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

JJ

goestin · 03-04-2005, 08:12 AM

i had once the same question and i'm sorry to say but, i couldn't find it. now what my solution was is: fvwm2 this is a very very flexible display manager but the coniguration is very hard...

maybe this isn't where you were looking for, but this is the only thing where i can think of.

cheers

dwrose · 03-04-2005, 09:01 AM

I don't know which distro you have or what version of GNOME you are using, but the GNOME site has a configuration guide. Here is the link to the latest stable release 2.6:

http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/latest/

I think what you may want to look at is the locking down the desktop section and configuring menus. You may not be able to do everything with one command, but I expect you can get a good start by looking a the documentation.

jjfate · 03-04-2005, 10:50 AM

Thanks DWrose, I will have another look at that, I looked through it real quick but wasnt able to find what I was looking for.

Any other suggestions would be great.

JJ

FC3

dwrose · 03-04-2005, 11:42 AM

Why do you want to disable the right-click menu? Is there something in the menu you don't want users to access?

jjfate · 03-04-2005, 05:09 PM

I am setting up a thin client (KIOSK) system with LTSP, and I want the clients only to be able to access what I have on the panel which I have already been able to lock down.

dwrose · 03-09-2005, 09:34 AM

I don't know much about either Kiosk mode or LTSP. You may want to repost your question with those in the subject.

Here is a different approach - http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/GDMKiosKMode

They don't lock down the desktop, instead they allow the user to update to their hearts content, but delete it and restore defaults after the user logs out.

-X- · 03-10-2005, 06:13 AM

The k12ltsp is a good link. Saw this the other day that might be of some help also;

http://developer.kde.org/documentati...osk/index.html

tonypm · 02-07-2007, 03:37 PM

This thread goes back a way now, but in case anyone is looking for a solution to this it would seem that this can be done in the gnome config by unchecking nautilus show desktop preference. To be precise.

using gconf-editor (yum install if not already installed)

In fedora core 6 this appears in menu Applications/System Tools/Configuration Editor.

In the configuration editor select Apps/Nautilus/Preferences and uncheck - show desktop.

It worked for me!!

Tonypm