locking down the desktop

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
On So, 2008-01-20 at 09:58 -0500, Barb Tabor wrote:
> I am having trouble finding out to prevent students from saving to the
> desktop (using Gutsy). 
> Any suggestions?
the simple answer is: you cant ....

but what you can do is:

sudo gconf-editor
go to: /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop
uncheck it, right click on it, make it mandatory and default through the
context menu so it applies globally ....

that will disable the drawing of the desktop completely ...

then make sure firefox downloads to somewhere else like /tmp and you are
done :)

ciao
	oli

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