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Old 10-25-2010, 12:31 PM   #1
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How to disable people from changing the screen saver time


Running RHEL5 and because of the environment that we are in we have to disable the users being able to change the screen saver. I have tried using the gconf-editor to see if I can disable it but don't know if that is the correct way of doing it. I also looked in /etc/xdg/menus and really don't want to miss with that.
 
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Depending on what WM/DE you're using ... make a change to
your screensaver settings; then run a "find ~ -mmin -3". Check
files that resemble anything screensaver-ish. Then - for all
accounts - make that file & directory it's in owned by root, and
read-only for the users group. That should do the trick.


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Old 10-26-2010, 07:17 AM   #3
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Depending on what WM/DE you're using ... make a change to
your screensaver settings; then run a "find ~ -mmin -3". Check
files that resemble anything screensaver-ish. Then - for all
accounts - make that file & directory it's in owned by root, and
read-only for the users group. That should do the trick.


Cheers,
Tink
Thanks Tinkster, but I figured it out. If anyone is interested in the fix here is the answer.

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory/ --set --type bool /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true

gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory/ --set --type int /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 15
 
  


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