[16:05]  * bencrisford wonders where highvoltage has been for today/yesterday
[20:11] <crashsystems> I've got a Sabayon question: I've created a profile that defines, among other things, the theme and the background. The profile was properly applied upon first log on to the new user I created for testing. However, the user is still able to change the background and theme, which I do not want. Does anyone know where I am failing in my attempts to make these settings mandatory?
[20:12] <mhall119> crashsystems: it's not usually active in here on weekends
[20:12] <mhall119> especially the weekend before UDS
[20:12] <crashsystems> :/ ok
[20:12] <mhall119> you might try the edubuntu mailing list though
[20:13] <mhall119> or see if sabayon has a project on Launchpad
[20:14] <alkisg> sbalneav maintains sabayon nowadays, but he's not here on weekends
[20:14] <crashsystems> ok
[20:14] <alkisg> Either the edubuntu mailing list or a weekday here will do.
[20:14] <crashsystems> I might try the mailing list then
[20:15] <mhall119> there will also be sessions on Edubuntu at UDS
[20:15] <mhall119> if you'll be awake
[20:15] <stgraber> crashsystems: you might want to check in the lock down part of sabayon if that's something you can do there
[20:15] <crashsystems> probably won't be
[20:15] <stgraber> crashsystems: if not, then I'm affraid you'll have to learn some gconf to do that
[20:15] <crashsystems> stgraber: the lockdown editor does not handle themes and backgrounds
[20:15] <stgraber> crashsystems: ok, that was what I was affraid of ...
[20:16] <alkisg> crashsystems: you can run gconf-editor, locate the background, right click and set it as mandatory
[20:16] <stgraber> crashsystems: so, you really may want to look at gconf, especially the mandatory keys
[20:16] <alkisg> All graphical, no command line necessary
[20:16] <stgraber> crashsystems: as alkisg said
[20:16] <crashsystems> Ok. So does the "Enforce Mandatory" checkbox not work?
[20:16] <crashsystems> or does it do something other than what I'm expecting?
[20:17] <stgraber> well, I'm not sure if sabayon actually enforces everything as mandatory because that'd probably break gnome if it does that. Instead, I'm guessing it's only making the changes from the lockdown editor as being mandatory and not defaults.
[20:17] <stgraber> sbalneav would know though (if he's around)
[20:18] <crashsystems> Do you happen to know if there is some way that I could perhaps cause the settings to change back to what is set in the profile (perhaps something that can be put in a crontab)?
[20:20] <stgraber> crashsystems: well, sabayon does some weird stuff there as it's not setting default keys properly, instead it sets user keys (unless that changed which would be great). If it does in fact set default keys, gconftool-2 --recursive-unset / will reset all the keys to their default values
[20:21] <mhall119> crashsystems: out of curiosity, why don't you want users to change background and theme?
[20:22] <crashsystems> #1 students sometimes pick color choices with horrible contrast, #2 there has been occasions where students have changed backgrounds to things that are not appropriate for a school setting, #3 consistency just looks nice
[20:23] <mhall119> well #1 is the student's problem, #2 can't really be prevented without restricting the ability to copy files to the computer, and #3 is kind of against the benefits of Linux
[20:24] <mhall119> does each student have their own account?
[20:24] <mhall119> or are these shared accounts?
[20:24] <crashsystems> stgraber: that gconftool-2 line worked quite well. Thanks
[20:24] <crashsystems> shared
[20:26] <crashsystems> If the setup was fancy enough to support users having their own accounts, I'd be fine with them customizing their desktops
[20:34] <stgraber> hmm, indeed with shared accounts, you probably want something that resets them on each logon
[21:14] <Daan> Hey guys, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for Ubuntu/GTK ?
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[21:59] <Daan> Hey guys, is there a 'teacher' program like openteacher that is special made for Ubuntu/GTK ?