locking down the desktop

[David Trask]

Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> writes:
>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

and Oli hits the nail right on the head!  :-)

David N. Trask
Technology Teacher/Director
Vassalboro Community School
dtrask at vcsvikings.org
(207)923-3100