*** Use ICEwm as your Window Manager. Not as 'pretty' as gnome/kde but
only consumes about 2Megs of ram to run. Also menu configuration is a
snap. Assuming a default install of ice you simply modify the
"menu/preferences/toolbar" files in /usr/local/lib/X11/icewm and ALL your
ltsp clients get the change to the menu *instantly* (no need for them to
logout then log back in). ICE will also scan the owner/group permissions
of a file and if the user does not have sufficient rights to run a program
then ICE will not make that option available to that user.
On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Jeff Roberts wrote:
> I'd really like a solid way to lock users into predefined desktop, that I
> can make changes to fairly easily.
>
> In the past, we've used gnome and took a dummy user and made menu like we
> want. I then copy that users files to another directory and chown them to
> root. Each person I want to have that menu, I symlink their gnome files
> back to the set I put in the directory. Small changes can be made by hand
> editing the files, but drastic changes require going through the routine
> again. Seems like sometimes the files get cached or something, and to get
> changes to take effect, I have delete some files and re-link to my menu set.
>
> Anyway, it just seems to me that there is a better way to maintain sets of
> menus and assign them to groups or users. Does anybody have a better way?
> Do any of the window managers, or kde have soemthing built in for this?
>
> I used policies under windows nt before we switched to ltsp over a year
> ago, so I figure surely I'm just missing something. I welcome any advice
> or links to howtos.
>
> Thanks In Advance,
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
>
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