[K12OSN] Desktop Wallpaper

[Gentgeen]

On Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:34:00 +0700
Edwardson Pedragosa <aimssda at cscoms.com> wrote:

> Mike,
> 
> Anything that works in IceWM? Or does Kiosktool work with Icewm?
> 
> Edward
> 
> #Hi,
> 
> #Yes.  If you're using KDE, run kiosktool (if it's hidden from the
> menu, #just Alt-F3).  You can use it to give certain groups different
> desktops, #which is pretty neat.
> 
> #I believe there's a new Gnome tool that offers similar functionality,
> #but someone else will have to speak to whether it can lock down
> desktop #wallpapers.
> 
> #Cheers,
> #Mike
> 
> Edwardson Pedragosa wrote:
> 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I don't know if this was answered here before, but i wanted to
> >restrict > my students from changing the desktop paper. Is it
> >possible to do that? > I want all the wallpapers to be the same.
> >> 
> >> Thank
> >> 
> >> Edwardson
> >> Adventist International Mission School
> >> Saraburi Thailand
> >> 
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Locking down IceWM is probably one of the easiest (at least in my
opinion).  

1) Take a "generic user" and set up IceWM exactly like you want it. 
Make sure the $USER/.icewm folder contains everything.  (You can use the
IceWM help or man to find a list of config files). Since you are trying
to lock things down, I would define everything, including the "default"
settings.

2) Once you have everything set, move that folder to somewhere everyone
can read it, but only $ADMIN can edit it. '/usr/local/icewm' for
example.  

3) Symlink in each users home directory to you special icewm folder.
      ln -s /usr/local/icewm /home/$USER/.icewm


I know that last step can be a lot, but there have been a lot of scripts
on this list that you can edit to do the same thing.  (I am no script
writer, so I would have to search through the achieve as well)

You will want something like:
  for $USER in /home/
  do ln -s /usr/local/icewm /home/$USER/.icewm

That is not the exact terms, but is the idea




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