I gave qvwm (www.qvwm.org) a try about a year ago and have been using it since. It has a centralized configuration file, you can specify what desktop items and menu for all users. It takes a little getting used to but once you get the hang of it, you'll find it pretty easy to configure. Individual configurations can be achieved by putting a config file in their home directory. It has a windows like interface and most of my users aren't even aware that they're using Linux.
Message: 10 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 06:50:54 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] centralized desktop menu management From: "Jeff Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 >> __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Faith Hill - Exclusive Performances, Videos & More http://faith.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- 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
