How to disable copy/paste functions in gnome.

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/04/2010 02:53 PM, David Taveras wrote:
> Sorry yes i meant the clipboard..!!
> The main program would be firefox so I tweak inside that would be awesome..!!
>
>    
     But here we throw in firefox.  "I tweak inside firefox"?




     The question was sort of: about gnome. But no it is the clipboard!



> David
>
> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Alan Bort<alanbort at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> Do you mean like disabling the clipboard (control+c/control+v)?
>>
>> Copyrighted documents should be in a binary format (pdf?) and the reader
>> should not allow the contents to be copied. However, if you want to disable
>> copying capabilities like cp/dd/ftp/etc..., that is a whole other story.
>>
>> In any case, I reckon it is possible, however I'm not certain as to how it
>> could be done.
>>
>> Alan.-
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 5:25 PM, David Taveras<d3taveras38d3 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>      
>>> Yes.. I know it sounds odd... but we want to explore disabling this in
>>> our gnome environment so that students cannot copy intelectual
>>> property easily.
>>>
>>> I know it is not the best way but we would like to know if at least
>>> the possibility exists?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> David
>>>
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         I would like to help but I can not get hold of a problem. Is 
there a problem?



73 Karl