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Chapter 4. Locking Down the Desktop: Disabling GNOME Desktop Features

key using Gconf editor, as shown in Figure 4 4.

Figure 4 4. Locking Down the Panel

4.3.1. Disabling Applets

To disable certain applets from loading or appearing in the applet menu, you can

specify which applets you wish to disable by adding the appropriate applet IID to the

/apps/panel/global/disabled_applets

key.

For

example,

to

disable

the

Show

Desktop

applet,

add

the

applet

IID

OAFIID:GNOME_ShowDesktopApplet

to the

/apps/panel/global/disabled_applets

key

as shown in Figure 4 5.