[K12OSN] consistent desktops

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Tue Aug 29 13:14:16 UTC 2006



Ray Garza wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 16:28, Petre Scheie wrote:
>> Yes, although there isn't a single tool that controls all these things, as
>> some are destkop environment related, others are specific application
>> related.  For the desktop environment, e.g., menus & buttons, the tool
>> depends on whether you're using Gnome (the default), KDE, or IceWM.  For
>> Gnome, use sabayon (I think you'll have to install it first).  There's a
>> similar tool for KDE and one for IceWM, but I forget their names; others
>> here will probably remember.
>>
> Ok, we use the Gnome desktop by default so, I'll huntdown Sabayon and give 
> that a try.
> 
>> For firefox, I think the file to edit is prefs.js, and then distribute that
>> to all users.
>>
> Yes, I remember editing the prefs.js a long time ago to put Firefox in Kiosk 
> mode with the features we wanted (or was that browser.jar).
> 
> Thanks for the tips. I've been scouring the archives for other tips and picked 
> up some other useful information.
> 
> Would you happen to anything about getting Fuse to work on FC4?
> 
> Ray
> 
yum install fuse

It's in the Fedora Extras repo.  Or did you mean something beyond that?

Petre




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