Desktop Lockdown

[Fitz_the_gap]

Hi, I need to prevent users (students) from messing around with the desktop perhaps making it read only. I also need to remove objects from the top panels. Any help is most appreciated.
cheers
Fitz

[timcredible]

well, removing objects from the top panel is just right-click on it and 'remove'. as for making a desktop read only, i guess you could do
chmod 444 .g*after you've got it setup the way you want.
however, if you're in a class environment, you may want to make your life easy and setup the student's computers as xdm clients only (with a pxes cd) and then have them remotely access a single ubuntu server via xdm. the reason for that is then you only have to maintain/fix/modify 1 machine. click on the link in my sig for more info on that.

[Fitz_the_gap]

Apologies for a late response. I'll look into it.
Thanks