/home/fiona/.gnome2/Business Applicationsx3270

/home/fiona/.gnome2/Business Applications/mozilla

We want Fiona to have access to these applications so she can run them. 

However, we do not want her to have the ability to make permanent changes to 

the desktop or to alter the applications that we set up. To do this we could 

change ownership and permission settings as follows:

chown  R  /home//.gnome2

chmod  R 755 /home//.gnome2

This allows the user to execute the icons and open the folders, but not to make 

any changes to them. But this is not foolproof, since Fiona can still rename the 

/home/fiona/.gnome2 directory and build another one on her own.

5.2.4  Visual configuration

This section explains how to configure the GNOME desktop environment from 

the GUI using the GNOME control center.

Note:

 When using the GUI to personalize the GNOME environment, a subset 

of the Gconf database is created within the user's home directory.

To access the GNOME preferences dialog, open the Nautilus URL: 

preferences:// 

Or select the 

Preferences 

menu entry. Using 

gnome control center

 from the 

command line does exactly the same. The GNOME control center lets you 

browse to many different configuration settings. For example, the top level 

choices for settings may include the following:

Accessibility

Desktop background

Mouse

Keyboard and keyboard shortcuts

Menus and tool bars

Fonts

Sound

Themes

Window behavior

Screen resolution

Screensaver

Session management

Login photo for gdm

Network proxy

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