Gnome: how put launcher/directory shortcuts as default/mandatory for all computer users?
Tim
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Tue Nov 9 16:08:01 UTC 2010
On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 16:31 +0100, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
> - "Desktop" desktop directory name depends on national setting
Not sure if that's automatically handled, or not. Most likely it's just
a straight file copy, that'll expect certain paths to exist, or create
them (regardless of whether that user account would use ~/Desktop as the
desktop directly, or not).
> - it work only in account creation time, when i need modify something
> later, I will crawl through users dirs
>
> - as I wrote before, on PC is several hundert accounts, but actively
> in using only several (10-15), thus although desktop files aren't too
> big, symlinks to central dir are in this case smaller (and in addition
> centrally maintained)
Which desktop interface do you use? There are some central management
tools for Gnome, one called sabayon should be a simple yum install away.
See: http://live.gnome.org/Sabayon I haven't actually tried this,
myself.
There should be similar tools for other desktops. And you might want to
Google "internet cafe" or "kiosk mode" for configuring a bunch of
computers in a very controlled manner. I have tried this, years ago,
but don't recall much. I'd guess that library mode, or central
management, might be some other likely search keywords.
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