te-tsuo Posted October 20, 2004 Report Share Posted October 20, 2004 Hi everyone!! I have a question about icons on a desktop. Can I secure desktop icons that they can not be deleted/moved to trash? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted October 21, 2004 Report Share Posted October 21, 2004 Right Click then go permissions, change it so only "Read" is set. Although that might not do the job, you could create a new dummy user, then at the command line 'cd /home/username/Desktop' then 'chown dummyuser icon.desktop' to change the user.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
te-tsuo Posted October 25, 2004 Author Report Share Posted October 25, 2004 (edited) Ok everything what iphitus said is true:-)) But i'm interesting in blocking icons on desktop, that anyone can't move this icons. You know, I click on icon, hold left mouse button pressed and i wont to move icon in another part of a screen. I wont to block that action. I know that there is such a option in Mandrake but I have forgotten where. I wos trying to find it but ... Edited October 25, 2004 by te-tsuo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted November 2, 2004 Report Share Posted November 2, 2004 The response of iphitus is the most general one. Change the user of the icons ... Anyway, with kde you have a progtram called "kiosk" which will give you option for the desktop like you mention ... although I have never used it ..so I cannot confirm it also can lock down icons ... Maybe this page can help you: http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/ However if uses have access to other environments .. they can go and work in those ofcourse. For gnome ... I only have a faint idea ... I read that there are some lockdown-keys for gnome. I checked it and there are a phew, but not for locking icons as far as I know: open gconf-editor (as root for the global configuration?) and go to "desktop-gnome- >lockdown. Althoughj I thought sun has a complete suite for locking down desktops I believe and as far as I know they use gnome ... I don't seem to have an option to lockdown icons, but here they mention do have ...: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-dev...r/msg00170.html I hoever have a panel-lockdown-item in "apps->panel". If you hae gnome 2.8 you can search fo lock-keys or lockdown. Although I only find another one for epiphany .. maybe you have more luck. seems it is called GLF (gnome lockdown framework: http://lists.gnome.org/archives/desktop-de...h/msg00032.html I don't really have an idea for other apps, but changing the user of a file is the most generic one if that is possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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