[K12OSN] Customising Applications menu in K12LTSP 4.2.0

Brian Chivers brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk
Thu Jan 27 15:29:44 UTC 2005


Steve Hargadon wrote:
> 12/6/04
>
>
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:45:31 -0000, Brian Chivers
> <brian at portsmouth-college.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Debbie Schiel wrote:
>>> Hi Brian,
>>>
>>> This is a bit of a sore point when it comes to gnome menus - I
>>> haven't yet found an easy way to edit them, despite loads of
>>> howtoz... do a google search for 'k12osn editing gnome menus', and
>>> check out the wikki -
>>>
>>
http://www.k12ltsp.org/phpwiki/index.php/Adding%20Menu%20Entries%20in%20FC2
>>>
>>> The easiest way for me though was to ditch gnome and switch to
>>> iceWM - it loads faster (especially on thin clients) and the menu
>>> is dead easy to edit, even for a newbie like me... see post titled
>>> 'making menu icons bigger in IceWM'
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> Debbie
>>>
>>> Brian Chivers wrote:
>>>> First let me introduce myself
>>>>
>>>> I'm Brian Chivers, I work at Portsmouth College as a ICT Support
>>>> Officer. I have recently downloaded and install the k12LTSP and I'm
>>>> really impressed with the easy of install, that the intro out the
>>>> way *grin*
>>>>
>>>> I have a thin client connecting via PXE booting but I'd like to
>>>> know how to remove things from the Applications menu's, it's
>>>> things like the systems tools etc, I realise that users can't
>>>> access them with the correct privilages but if it's not there they
>>>> won't try.
>>>>
>>>> I have tried right clicking on them, shift click but the "Remove
>>>> this item" is always greyed out.
>>>>
>>>> Can some point me in the right direction, I think I'm google'd out.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Brian
>>>>
>>>>
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>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> I like the look of ICEWM especially how you can make it look like
>> WinXP (well the students will like it), I'll have a look for the
>> post to edit the menu's etc, any idea roughly when the post was ? so
>> I don't have to sift through to many posts *grin*
>>
>> Brian
>>
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Thanks I'll take a look

Brian


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