Help customising Fedora for my grandfather.

[Chris K]

Rather than dragging things to the desktop, set them up as items on the 
Panel.  that way, you have everything at hand, and they're all one-click 
launches (even a shutdown).

Chris K.

David L Norris wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 11:29, Jon Atkinson wrote:
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>>He's being automatically logged in already (I figures users and groups 
>>would just add another layer of complexity he doesn't need to be 
>>concerned with). And the reason he needs to log out is that the Shutdown 
>>command is in the log-out dialogue (though I was considering puttin a 
>>launcher on the desktop 'sudo init 0' or suchlike).
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>Drag the logout icon to the desktop?  There may be a way to limit the
>options on the logout dialog.  If it does exist its probably only
>editable with gconf-editor.  (For example, remote and flexi logins have
>the reboot and shutdown options removed from the logout dialog.)
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>Also, you may be able to run /sbin/halt (or shutdown -h now) as a normal
>user.  It would be preferable to use the GNOME logout, I think.
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>>2) Is there any way to switch item selection in nautilus to 
>>single-click?
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>main menu -> Preferences -> File Management
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>Top of the Behavior tab is single or double click to active items.
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>>3) He's accessing the internet with a 56K modem, which is ideal for 
>>his needs. Can anyone suggest a dialer application which is nice and 
>>simple for him to use.
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>right-click a panel -> Add to Panel submenu -> Internet -> Modem Lights
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>See if that is usable.  I've seen some people complain that its flaky. 
>I don't have any modems so I'm not sure.
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