Thanks, I'll give it a try. I believe I remember seeing a howto on configuring ICEwm on this list too, I'll check the archives.
-Jeff > > > > *** Use ICEwm as your Window Manager. Not as 'pretty' as gnome/kde but > only consumes about 2Megs of ram to run. Also menu configuration is a > snap. Assuming a default install of ice you simply modify the > "menu/preferences/toolbar" files in /usr/local/lib/X11/icewm and ALL > your ltsp clients get the change to the menu *instantly* (no need for > them to logout then log back in). ICE will also scan the owner/group > permissions of a file and if the user does not have sufficient rights > to run a program then ICE will not make that option available to that > user. > > > > > > On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Jeff Roberts wrote: > >> I'd really like a solid way to lock users into predefined desktop, >> that I can make changes to fairly easily. >> >> In the past, we've used gnome and took a dummy user and made menu like >> we want. I then copy that users files to another directory and chown >> them to root. Each person I want to have that menu, I symlink their >> gnome files back to the set I put in the directory. Small changes >> can be made by hand editing the files, but drastic changes require >> going through the routine again. Seems like sometimes the files get >> cached or something, and to get changes to take effect, I have delete >> some files and re-link to my menu set. >> >> Anyway, it just seems to me that there is a better way to maintain >> sets of menus and assign them to groups or users. Does anybody have >> a better way? Do any of the window managers, or kde have soemthing >> built in for this? >> >> I used policies under windows nt before we switched to ltsp over a >> year ago, so I figure surely I'm just missing something. I welcome >> any advice or links to howtos. >> >> Thanks In Advance, >> >> Jeff >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >> Welcome to geek heaven. >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf >> _____________________________________________________________________ >> Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss >> For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
