On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Gavin McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote: > >> > How can I get _complete_ control over the user environment? > >> A slightly contrary alternative answer (I don't know much about sabayon >> etc.) is that you could give them a very limited desktop like fvwm95. >> >> http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/ >> >> It's not that pretty, but it's a familiar format and it doesn't offer much >> customisation. Actually, that's not true it offers lots, but you mostly >> need to do it by modifying rc files and students are unlikely to figure >> that out. > > You could even set the RC file and make it read-only so as to stop them > editing it. > > Oh, and I should say, it has a very low cpu/memory footprint which will > allow you more students and better performance per server. > > Gavin > > > > -- > edubuntu-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users >
Thanks Gavin, I'll keep FVWM95 in mind. I'm really hoping to hear that there is a working solution for edubuntu using tools provided with gnome or kde. :-> At first blush FVWM is pretty retro. I appreciate the small footprint however. Thanks! John -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
