Locking down the gnome desktop

[Alex Howe <alex howe adaptive-it co uk>]

Hello All.

I am trying to lock down my ubuntu 7.10 LTSP server for non admin users. 
I have trailed through the forums to find answers but still no joy.

I want to be able to do the following:

- lock down the desktop to stop users from changing the background image.
- lock down the menus so they can't be edited.
- lock down all of the panels

The best solution for this would be to disable the right click function 
on the desktop and panels a bit like how the kde kiosk tool works.

I tried the following things:

Pessulus - Only allows locking of the panels.
Sayabon profile editor - Crashes so much that it's unusable.

Most of the posts and info I have read reference the gconf-editor. Is 
there any way to achieve this?

Thanks

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Alex Howe

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