How to prevent wallpaper changing in Ubuntu 11.10

[news_js]

Hi!

I need to prevent the user from changing the wallpaper in Ubuntu 11.10. In previous versions it was easy:

chmod 744 /usr/bin/gnome-appearance-properties

But in Ubuntu 11.10 gnome-appearance-properties file is not there.

Thanks.

[news_js]

Hi!

Is there any way to do this? I've searched the web and find no answer.

[phDaemon]

Which DM are you using? Gnome or unity?

[news_js]

Which DM are you using? Gnome or unity?

I think it's unity. But if necessary, I can switch to Gnome.

[ranjit.]

well, there is no file gnome-appearance-properties.desktop in /usr/share folders, they have either changed the name of the file or they have moved the file to another location, I really needed the file cause i wanted to change my login screen using that file, If any one can find out what is the alternative for the file it would be really helpful:guitar:

[Rakeshvijayan]

how it possible

[talkingtek]

Did you find an answer for this? I'm looking for the same answer as well. Let me know if find out the answer. Thanks!

I'm using gnome.

[Krytarik]

Please see this doc how to really "lock down" specific settings keys in Gnome 3, it even has the wallpaper as the example:


http://live.gnome.org/dconf/SystemAdministrators

But definitely also lock down this key, to make sure the wallpaper is also displayed at all/correctly:


"/org/gnome/desktop/background/picture-options"

As for 'chmoding' "gnome-appearance-properties" in Gnome 2, that was a cheap, improper method in the first place, as there are at least 3 ways to circumvent that virtual block: GConf-Editor, "gconftool-2" command, editing the concerning XML file directly; plus, the 'lock' would be undone by an upgrade of the respective package, "gnome-control-center".

Regards.