Fwd: [K12OSN] Me again :-) how do I globally remove icons from the desktop

[Krsnendu dasa]

I want to try something like this on Edubuntu but I didn't notice any
profile.d directory. Will this still work if I create a profile.d directory,
or is there a different way in Ubuntu.

Thanks,
Krsnendu dasa

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Peter Scheie <peter at scheie.homedns.org>
Date: 17 Mar 2007 10:02
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Me again :-) how do I globally remove icons from the
desktop
To: "Support list for open source software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>

Jim Kronebusch wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:26:27 -0600, Jim Kronebusch wrote
>> I want to run a command to globally remove the "Computer" icon from all
users desktops
>> to simplify things.  How do I do that?  Also I need to set the new
default as
>> well for this so that new users only get the icons I want them to.  I
imagine
>> new users default icons are controlled with files from /etc/skel, but
what do
>> I need to do to set this up.
>
> Now I'm really messed up.  Turns out the Computer icon won't remove with
the "Remove
> icons from all user's desktops".  When I drop the icon on it I just get
the message
> "Drag-and-drop a file......" basically the same message I get when I
double click the
> icon.  Can Computer not be removed from the Gnome Desktop?
>
> And I have 2 icons that are actually links to other folders, one icon
called "Drop" that
> links to /home/Drop and another called "Public" that links to
/home/Public.  I drop them
> on the "Push icons to all user's desktops" and nothing happens.  Can links
not be pushed?
>
> help!
>
> Jim
>
For links on users' desktops, I have a script in /etc/profile.d/ that checks
for the
link on the user's desktop, and if it doesn't exist, creates it.  Stuff in
/etc/profile.d/ gets run during every login so this makes sure the user has
the link
even if he/she drags it to the trash or deletes it; next login the icon and
link will
reappear.  Here's my script, which puts a symlink in the user's $HOME and
$HOME/Desktop:

#!/bin/bash

# check for symlink called classroom in user's ~/Desktop/ directory to
# /home/classroom directory, and if it doesn't exist, create it.
# /home/classroom should have g+rws permissions, and all users should
# be members of the group, so that all students can write to
# /home/classroom.

[ ! -L $HOME/Desktop/classroom ] && ln -s /home/classroom
${HOME}/Desktop/classroom
[ ! -L $HOME/classroom ] && ln -s /home/classroom ${HOME}/classroom

Petre

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