Re: remove update icon



On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 15:12 -0400, Ron Salyers wrote:
> 
> Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-10-27 at 14:10 -0400, Ron Salyers wrote:
> >> I'm running Red Hat AS 4 and I want to remove the update icon from the 
> >> panel so my users don't see it.  I was able to remove the sound applet, 
> >> but I can't seem to remove that update notifier.
> > 
> > edit /usr/share/gnome/default.session file and remove rhn-applet line
> > along with associated lines.
> > 
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> >> Also, once I remove it I plan to dump the panel settings for root and 
> >> load them into the default settings.  Is there anything I need to be 
> >> concerned about when doing this?  Or is it just that simple?  The 
> >> documentation mentions I should change the positions of panel objects 
> >> from absolute to relative, but it looks like that's already the case.  I 
> >> assume I don't have to worry about that?
> > 
> > sorry, a bit lost. Would you like to have default settings for other
> > users ?
> > 
> 
> Yes.  I'm modifying /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults so that the first time 
> they login they get what I want them to get.  It looks like there aren't 
> default panel settings in this directory.  It looks like that directory 
> gets created based on the entries file.  So, for example, I removed the 
> sound icon as root, used the gconf tool to dump the /apps/panel 
> directory, and used gconf tool to load it into the default gconf 
> directory.  That seemed to work.  I just assumed it would be the same 
> for the update icon.  Is that the wrong way to do it?
> 
> I guess I still don't totally understand how it all works together.

sorry, just blew my rhel4 test system :(
will install rhel4 by tuesday.

out of memory, this should be handled by gconf default setting.
gnome.org has excellent documentation on administration.

/me will check this out later

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron
> 
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Ron
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