Philip Stokes wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to configure the KDE menus on the KPanel so that a particular user can only see and access his personal menus, whilst other users can see both their personal and the system default menus?

I have given my son access to my Linux box and want to remove the menu items to programs that I don't want to give him access to. I used KmenuEdit to create a personal menu for him, but I can't find a way to remove the system default menu from his display.

I can't recall the solution to your problem, but I know that I've read about it. ;-) Check out: <A HREF="http://www.kde.org"><A HREF="http://www.kde.org</A">http://www.kde.org</A</A>> and join the kde user list. Hope this help you out some Phil. Dana - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>

On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Philip Stokes wrote:

Does anyone know if there is a way to configure the KDE menus on the KPanel so that a particular user can only see and access his personal menus, whilst other users can see both their personal and the system default menus?

If there's anyone else interested in knowing how to do this, what I've now done is to create a new group kmenus, and add all users that should be allowed to access the KDE system menus to that group. I changed the ownership of the entire /opt/kde/share/applnk directory tree to root.kmenus and changed the permissions of all *.kdelnk files within that tree to 640. Users not in the kmenus group now have access only to their user menus under KDE, which I have defined for them, others in the group have access to the full set of menus as before. I haven't found out what will happen if I run SuSEConfig and it tries to rewrite the menus as yet, but I have YaST set to not alter permissions when it runs, and so far it all works fine. Thanks to Dana for pointing me in the direction of the KDE user list. Whilst I didn't find the specific answer there it got me thinking in the right direction. I hope this might be useful to someone else. Phil -- Philip Stokes Email: phil@stokes.demon.co.uk Fax: +44 (0)870 164 1242 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archiv at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>