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

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Figure 4 5. Disabling Panel Applets

Disabled applets may still appear in the dialog for adding applets, but will not be added to the panels.

Note

The panel must be restarted for disabled applet changes to take effect.

4.4. Disabling Command Line Access

To completely disable command line access, you will need to make configuration changes in a number

of different contexts:

Set the

disable_command_line

gconf key, which prevents the user from accessing the terminal

or specifying a command line to be executed

Disable the Command Line (Mini Commander) applet

Disable console switching by editing

/etc/X11/xorg.conf

Remove the Open Terminal menu item from the desktop background menu

These steps are described below.

Setting the

disable_command_line

gconf key

Set the

/desktop/gnome/lockdown/disable_command_line

key by using GConf editor

as shown in Figure 4 6. Setting this key also disables access to the Run Application panel dialog.