I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but also when i will create a new account. Do you know if it is possible and how ? I'm not sure to explain well what i need so ... Thanks
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On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 09:19 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but also when i will create a new account. Do you know if it is possible and how ?
When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and files. The adduser command allows you to specify a different one. You could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use the adduser command, appropriately, to add new users.
Though, which gets the reduced menus? The teachers who don't understand the technology, or the students that exploit it too much? ;-)
Le dimanche 30 octobre 2005 à 19:20 +1030, Tim a écrit :
On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 09:19 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
I have 2 main user group : teachers and students. I would like that each student have a specific Applications menu in gnome and each teacher have another one. I would like also this will be true for actual users but also when i will create a new account. Do you know if it is possible and how ?
When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and files. The adduser command allows you to specify a different one. You could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use the adduser command, appropriately, to add new users.
Though, which gets the reduced menus? The teachers who don't understand the technology, or the students that exploit it too much? ;-)
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Thanks for the answer, i think you speak about the adduser command line because with system-config-users it's not possible but it's easier to create a lot of users with the command line! About the menu, i just want to manage it "better" with more specific sections : maths, physics, ... and put the system for teachers and not for students... Eric
Am Sonntag, den 30.10.2005, 20:04 +0100 schrieb Eric Tanguy:
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About the menu, i just want to manage it "better" with more specific sections : maths, physics, ... and put the system for teachers and not for students... Eric
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/desktop-guide/ch...
I don't know about a GUI or anything else that can accomplish your wants+needs _easy_ and/or _fast_.
Thomas
Tim wrote:
When adding new users, a skeleton (/etc/skel/) directory is used to populate the new user's directory with some standard directories and files. The adduser command allows you to specify a different one. You could make up student and teacher skeleton directories, and use the adduser command, appropriately, to add new users.
Just to be clear, I'm suggesting that you preload the files used to make the menus in the skeleton directories.
As far as *how* to do that particular thing, I can't really advise. Though you could use a menu editing tool, like "smeg", look at the files it creates, and use them as a template.
In your own homespace, it creates menu files in: ~/.local/share/applications/
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