Gconf-editor Howto?

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Jun 13 17:52:17 UTC 2006


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Chris Bradford wrote:
> I want to set a 'policy' on my workstation so that users cannot edit
> menus / change backgrounds etc.
> 
> I believe Gconf is the way to do this, but I can't seem to figure it
> out. Is there a howto out there?

The Gnome Desktop System Administration Guide would be the first place
to look:

    http://www.gnome.org/learn/admin-guide/2.14/

That covers doing a lot of things using the command line gconftool-2.
You can also open gconf-editor as root and then from the file menu
select either new defaults or new mandatory window.

Another option is sabayon.  Install sabayon and sabayon-admin and then
use System -> Administration -> User Profile Editor (possibly under a
"More ..." menu).  You can use it to create default profiles and
select which users the settings will apply to.

I haven't used either to disable user menu editing, so I don't know
what specific gconf keys may be the relevant ones.

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