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Chapter 4. Locking Down the Desktop: Disabling GNOME Desktop Features

Figure 4 10. Removing All Desktop Icons

Note

Unsetting this key also removes the desktop background menu, thereby eliminating access to the

Open Terminal menu item. This is a recommended step for disabling command line access as

described in Section 4.4 Disabling Command Line Access.

4.7. Other Kiosk related Configuration Tasks

This section documents a number of configuration tasks an administrator might find useful in setting

up a machine to serve as a public kiosk.

Tip

Removing the top panel or its Main Menu is recommended for kiosk operation. To remove the top

Panel, right click on it with the mouse and choose "Delete This Panel..." from the Panel menu.

4.7.1. Preventing Automounting of Drives

To prevent all drives, such as floppy disks, cdroms, or other removable media from automatically

mounting, unset the

/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_drives

/desktop/gnome/volume_manager/automount_media

keys as shown in Figure 4 11.