[2] [2] [Kde-kiosk] disabling right mouse button

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 12:46, Dirk Drexlin wrote:
> Martijn Klingens <klingens at kde.org> wrote on 13.05.2003 11:10:13:
> >On Tuesday 13 May 2003 09:25, Dirk Drexlin wrote:
> >> I want to lock down KDE, so that users can only access the internet. (I
> >> might add some other options for them later)
> >> So I configured kickerrc, so that there is only the button for
> >> konqueror. But with the right mouse button, users can add buttons and
> >> obviously I dont't want that.
> >
> >If you make kicker "immutable" the user can no longer change the settings
> >anymore.
> >
> >Place a [$i] at the top of kickerrc and restart kicker (or login again) to
> > see the result.
>
> Well, strange, but this didn't work.
> But making kickerrc unwritable for the user worked.
> So, my problem with kicker is solved.

You have to be a bit careful with the order of doing things: exit KDE, make 
modification, restart KDE. Otherwise there is the risk that the application 
still overwrites your changes when it saves it's own settings on exit.

> But I still would like to know how I can disable the mouse buttons on the
> desktop using kdeglobals or kdesktoprc. I disabled them using Control
> Center. But I feel it might be better only to use the files and not Control
> Center. Who knows what Control Center does.....

You can do the same with kdesktoprc as you did with kickerrc.

Cheers,
Waldo
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