Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (171 mails)

[Matt Johnson <johnsonmlw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've been crying out for something easy along these
lines. I let you know if it's truely easy enough for
me ;)

--
Matt Johnson

 --- Phil Driscoll <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >
Thanks to all for their advice on this.
> 
> For those using KDE in schools in a standalone or
> LTSP environment who want a 
> 'get on with some work, don't twiddle with the
> desktop' type environment, I 
> stongly suggest you follow Chris Howells' link to
>
http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdelibs/kdecore/README.kiosk?rev=1.10&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
> and read up on the [$i] 'immutable' setting which
> can be applied to prevent 
> global kde configuration settings being overridden
> by local ones.
> 
> We generated the desktop and kicker config files we
> wanted just using the gui 
> tools, then copied them from the home directory of
> the user we were logged in 
> as into the global kde area, after doing a bit of
> tweaking in a text editor 
> and adding a [$i] at the top of the file. It worked
> a treat - now all users 
> get the same desktop and kicker and they can't
> fiddle around with them!
> 
> Cheers
> -- 
> Phil Driscoll
> 
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