KDE - How to disable the Switch User and Lock in Leave Menu ?

[Kevin Krammer]

Hi Zaiwen,

On Mittwoch, 14. März 2018 17:11:57 CET Zaiwen Gong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have got it to work with the help from KDE enterprise developer!

Ah, great!

Glad that tip turned out to be fruitful :-)

Thanks for reporting the solution here as well!

Cheers,
Kevin

> 
> First, the relevant file should be whatever kdeglobals file the command
> "kde4-config --path config" lists.
> 
> Second, need to set the config to:
> 
>      switch_user=false
> 
> *as well as*
> 
>      action/switch_user=false
> 
> It is a bug in the underlying code, one of the many things that got
> fixed properly when they redid everything in Plasma5. It's much improved
> in this area.
> 
> 
> In my case, what I did was:
> 
> 1.  "*kde4-config --path config*" returns:
> 
> ~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profi
> le/default/share/config/:/usr/share/config/
> 
> 2. Go through all the folders and find two kdeglobals files:
> 
> ~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
> /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals
> 
> 3. Update *~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals* with:
> 
> [KDE Action Restrictions]
> *action/switch_user=false**
> **switch_user=false*
> action/start_new_session=false
> start_new_session=false
> action/lock_screen=false
> lock_screen=false
> 
> 4. Update
> */usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals*.
> In this file, it contains one line which doesn't allow users to change
> KDE Action. Remove this line:
> 
> *[KDE Action Restrictions][$i]*
> 
> Now when I login, "Switch User" and "Lock" are removed from the Leave menu!
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Zaiwen
> 
> On 03/13/18 10:04, Zaiwen Gong wrote:
> > Hi Kevin and René J.V. Bertin,
> > 
> > I did some tests.
> > 
> > With Plasma 5 (plasma-desktop-5.10.5-1.fc27.x86_64), I got it to work
> > by appending the following lines to my "*$HOME/.config/kdeglobals*":
> > 
> >     [KDE Action Restrictions]
> >     action/start_new_session=false
> >     action/switch_user=false
> >     action/lock_screen=false
> > 
> > But I can't get it to work with Plasma 4.10. I tried
> > $HOME/.config/kdeglobals", $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals,
> > ksmserverrc, plasma-desktoprc,  plasma-desktop-appletsrc, none is
> > working.
> > 
> > Not sure if it is not supported in Plasma 4 or is it because I don't
> > install plasma 4 correctly?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Zaiwen
> > 
> > On 03/13/18 05:36, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >> On Dienstag, 13. März 2018 10:30:53 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> >>> On Monday March 12 2018 10:05:46 Kevin Krammer wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> Hi,
> >>> 
> >>> [...]
> >>> 
> >>>> You could also try ksmserverrc or plasmarc
> >>>> 
> >>>> Also consider asking at the KDE Enterprise mailinglist
> >>>> 
> >>>> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/enterprise
> >>>> 
> >>>> It is used by sysadmins who manage KDE deployments and often discuss
> >>>> action
> >>>> restrictions.
> >>> 
> >>> I've often tried to configure the "Leave" menu so it never includes the
> >>> Suspend-to-Disk option. Same advice, or is that something I should
> >>> address
> >>> at a level below KDE?
> >> 
> >> I would say generally same advice (ask on kde-enterprise), but if you
> >> want to disable it globally then there might indeed be a system level
> >> option.
> >> 
> >> Zaiwen's problem was a bit different since only specific accounts should
> >> have the options disabled.
> >> 
> >> Cheers,
> >> Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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