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10011001

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Registered: 2016-06-24

Posts: 4

prearranging desktop icons for the guest user

Hi,

I'm currently trying to customize a kiosk system. A customer asked whether or not it would be possible to arrange the desktop icons for the guest user. I haven found any way to do this because the guest user doesn't adopt the .rc files (~/.config/xfce4/desktop) from the user it sources its home folder from.

So my question is is it possible to prearrange the desktop icons for the guest user? If yes, how?

Best Regards

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alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: prearranging desktop icons for the guest user

Check this out: https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/kiosk_mode#xfce4_desktop

Some components of Xfce have support for kiosk mode. This can be enabled by creating and modifying the system kioskrc file found at:

${sysconfdir}/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc

By default, ${sysconfdir} points to /etc

(...)

Xfce4 Desktop

[xfdesktop]
UserMenu=%wheel
CustomizeBackdrop=ALL
CustomizeDesktopMenu=%wheel
CustomizeWindowlist=NONE
CustomizeDesktopIcons=brian

(...)

CustomizeDesktopIcons

Whether or not to allow the user to enable or disable the display of desktop icons, or change their style.

Disclaimer: I just googled, never used kiosk mode, good luck!