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Some kinda gconf-editor/pessilus Lockdown for AWN
#26056 by dtmrubio (0.1917) posted on 2:29pm Friday, March 19th, 2010
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I am a system administrator for a public library and would love to use this for our public computers, but I would like the ability to lock down the icons and settings. Is there a way to change some settings somewhere to where they would not be editable.
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Thanks!
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#26057 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 2:32pm Sunday, March 21st, 2010
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There is no simple way to do this afaik. But I'll ask around
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#26058 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 2:36pm Sunday, March 21st, 2010
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Ah... pessilus might work fine. Especially if you can easily lockdown a gconf directory.
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What version of awn are you considering? The gconf layout varies considerably with >= 0.3.9
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Also with 0.3.9 you could probably consider using a keyfile backend and just write protecting the configuration files.
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#26059 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 3:02pm Sunday, March 21st, 2010
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On a closer look at pessilus, that's not going to work. I guess you either have the option of
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1) locking down the relevant keys in gconf (there are going to be quite a few)
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2) Using 0.3.9 and go with the keyfile backend and trying making the configuration dir read only. I do not know if this will work.
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#26061 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 5:09am Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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moonbeam said:
1) locking down the relevant keys in gconf (there are going to be quite a few)
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2) Using 0.3.9 and go with the keyfile backend and trying making the configuration dir read only. I do not know if this will work.
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This was briefly tested and seems to work.
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#26062 by dtmrubio (0.1917) posted on 7:23am Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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Moonbeam,
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Thanks! I will try this right away. Just for clarification though, you made it read only through gconf, or directly with a chmod command? BTW I am using version 3.9 and we're loving the new look of it since we used it back in 2008.
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#26063 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 8:26am Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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dtmrubio said:
Thanks! I will try this right away. Just for clarification though, you made it read only through gconf, or directly with a chmod command? BTW I am using version 3.9 and we're loving the new look of it since we used it back in 2008.
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The keyfile backend is completely separate from gconf (see below for directory/file locations).
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First thing you would need to do is make sure the keyfile backend is installed for lda.
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Then set in $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic.ini
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You probably want:
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config=keyfile
vfs = gio
desktop-entry = glib
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Once you do that you will need to reconfigure awn. Note that the configuration files are stored in $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic/
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Once you have it configured you _should_ be able to set $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic/ to readonly.
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Also note, that depending on the lda installed you _may_ need to restart awn after making changes.
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#26064 by dtmrubio (0.1917) posted on 10:06am Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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OK,
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I am using Ubuntu Karmic. Will that configuration work with this distro? Because I cannot find $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic.ini nor the directory $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic/. The AWN files on this load are installed in /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/. How does that change the configuration?
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#26065 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 11:22am Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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dtmrubio said:
I am using Ubuntu Karmic. Will that configuration work with this distro? Because I cannot find $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic.ini nor the directory $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic/. The AWN files on this load are installed in /usr/share/avant-window-navigator/. How does that change the configuration?
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You should be fine if you're using the awn-testing ppa.
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Make sure libdesktop-agnostic-cfg-keyfile package is installed.
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Then create $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic.ini and make it's contents
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[DEFAULT]
config=keyfile
vfs = gio
desktop-entry = glib
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Restarting awn should result in $HOME/.config/desktop-agnostic/ being created with a default configuration of awn (basically the prefs applet and the task manager). At this time you will need to restart awn before seeing any configuration changes made, so add/remove whatever applets you want, change any other configurations, then restart awn(there is a fix in the pipeline, just hasn't shown up in the ppa yet).
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#26066 by dtmrubio (0.1917) posted on 1:26pm Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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That... Is... AWESOME! Thanks that will work perfectly. The only other thing would be if there was some way for them to not be able to close the AWN. Can I change the contextual menu to not have that option some how?
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#26067 by moonbeam (1.0000) posted on 1:48pm Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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dtmrubio said:
That... Is... AWESOME! Thanks that will work perfectly. The only other thing would be if there was some way for them to not be able to close the AWN. Can I change the contextual menu to not have that option some how?
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Unfortunately that's not an option atm. I'd suggest wrapping it in a shell script that just restarts it if someone exits. Unless you want to patch it yourself and rebuild from source ( I think the script is probably the easier method )
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#26068 by dtmrubio (0.1917) posted on 2:39pm Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
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Thanks so much for your help! I will look into the script solution and post it when its done.
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