that - but most
users aren't smart enough to do that.
Hope this helps... and isn't too late.
--- On Fri, 11/7/08, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] LTSP Gnome login and icon issues
To: ltsp-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Friday, November 7
Rob Owens wrote:
Scott wrote:
2. I need to remove the Evolution-email icon from the default Gnome
panel. This is a school district and I need to remove anything from
plain sight that the kids might want to fiddle with. By default, when
someone logs in they get the:
Applications Places System
Hi,
Ad 2.
You can create a 'template' user, fine-tune all the user setting,
remove unneeded icons, install firefox plugins, lockdown some gnome
apps and settings etc., then copy the whole content of the user folder
to /etc/skel.
You can also change the location of media mounted on the
Jarosław Stemplewski wrote:
You can create a 'template' user, fine-tune all the user setting,
remove unneeded icons, install firefox plugins, lockdown some gnome
apps and settings etc., then copy the whole content of the user folder
to /etc/skel.
I don't think this is a very good idea
stuff like Mozilla
profiles will be user-specific and aren't exactly portable to copy.
AFAIK fresh, clean profile can be copied without any mess.
It is trivial to install flash/java/etc globally, without copying the
plugins over and over for each user.
Sure. But I prefer to set _one_ profile
Scott wrote:
2. I need to remove the Evolution-email icon from the default Gnome
panel. This is a school district and I need to remove anything from
plain sight that the kids might want to fiddle with. By default, when
someone logs in they get the:
Applications Places System (firefox) (email)
Hello,
I am building an LTSP server with Ubuntu 8.04 with the Edubuntu add on.
Things are going well except for a couple issues that i can't figure out.
1. When I log in to gnome as a local user on the actual server, not from a
client, it will show the background and sit for about 2 minutes then
Scott,
For problem #1 I would recommend using the gnome-watchdog package. This
package helped with that issue when I was experiencing it, which most
likely has to do with lingering processes on the server after user
logout. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuLTSP/GnomeWatchdog .
For