User1: I've got a Sabayon question: I've created a profile that defines, among other things, the theme and the background. The profile was properly applied upon first log on to the new user I created for testing. However, the user is still able to change the background and theme, which I do not want. Does anyone know where I am failing in my attempts to make these settings mandatory?
User2: User1 it's not usually active in here on weekends
User2: especially the weekend before UDS
User1: :/ ok
User2: you might try the edubuntu mailing list though
User2: or see if sabayon has a project on Launchpad
User3: sbalneav maintains sabayon nowadays, but he's not here on weekends
User1: ok
User3: Either the edubuntu mailing list or a weekday here will do.
User1: I might try the mailing list then
User2: there will also be sessions on Edubuntu at UDS
User2: if you'll be awake
User4: User1 you might want to check in the lock down part of sabayon if that's something you can do there
User1: probably won't be
User4: User1 if not, then I'm affraid you'll have to learn some gconf to do that
User1: User4 the lockdown editor does not handle themes and backgrounds
User4: User1 ok, that was what I was affraid of ...
User3: User1 you can run gconf-editor, locate the background, right click and set it as mandatory
User4: User1 so, you really may want to look at gconf, especially the mandatory keys
User3: All graphical, no command line necessary
User4: User1 as alkisg said
User1: Ok. So does the "Enforce Mandatory" checkbox not work?
User1: or does it do something other than what I'm expecting?
User4: well, I'm not sure if sabayon actually enforces everything as mandatory because that'd probably break gnome if it does that. Instead, I'm guessing it's only making the changes from the lockdown editor as being mandatory and not defaults.
User4: sbalneav would know though (if he's around)
User1: Do you happen to know if there is some way that I could perhaps cause the settings to change back to what is set in the profile (perhaps something that can be put in a crontab)?
User4: User1 well, sabayon does some weird stuff there as it's not setting default keys properly, instead it sets user keys (unless that changed which would be great). If it does in fact set default keys, gconftool-2 --recursive-unset / will reset all the keys to their default values
User2: User1 out of curiosity, why don't you want users to change background and theme?
User1: #1 students sometimes pick color choices with horrible contrast, #2 there has been occasions where students have changed backgrounds to things that are not appropriate for a school setting, #3 consistency just looks nice
User2: well #1 is the student's problem, #2 can't really be prevented without restricting the ability to copy files to the computer, and #3 is kind of against the benefits of Linux
User2: does each student have their own account?
User2: or are these shared accounts?
User1: User4 that gconftool-2 line worked quite well. Thanks
User1: shared
User1: If the setup was fancy enough to support users having their own accounts, I'd be fine with them customizing their desktops
User4: hmm, indeed with shared accounts, you probably want something that resets them on each logon
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User5: Hey guys, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for Ubuntu/GTK ?
User5: Hey guys, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for Ubuntu/GTK ?
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