can't hide settings manager from menu

cmcanulty · 2014-11-13 18:44:17

I am having an issue with one of our library public computers. The setting manager menu won't hide no matter how many times I click hide and save it stays there and as soon as I go to another menu category it has changed itself back to unhide. I don't want the public seeing the settings or messing with them!

ToZ · 2014-11-13 19:18:30

You're using Xubuntu, correct? Which version?

Are you running the Whisker menu or are you using the default Windows Applications Menu plugin?

And finally, where are clicking "hide"? Which program? Menulibre? Alacarte? another?

cmcanulty · 2014-11-13 19:53:37

I am using xubuntu 14.04 64 bit with the whisker menu. I am rt clicking applications menu on panel , then edit applications, and choose Settings Manager and click hide and save and on only one of 10 identical laptops it refuses to hide. Clarification the edit applications brings up menu libre but the panel says whisker menu. The editing of menus in xfce4 seems like one area that could really be improved.

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ToZ · 2014-11-13 20:17:05

On the Whisker Menu, there are three places where the Settings Manager item may appear:
1. In the menu structure itself
2. On the bottom of the whisker menu as a clickable shortcut icon.
3. In the Favourites listing

For #1, from within Menulibre, I turn On the "Hide from Menus" option for the "Settings" entry and then save the change (second icon on the icon bar). This removes the Settings category.

To remove #2, right-click the plugin, select "Properties" and on the Behavior tab, uncheck the "All Settings" checkbox.

For #3, if you get a Settings Manager entry in the favourites listing then right-click it and select "Remove".

cmcanulty · 2014-11-13 23:20:17

OK I already did #1 with no result, lib is closed now and I will try 2 & 3 tomorrow, thanks

sixsixfive · 2014-11-13 23:46:22

Also for general menu entries i would first try to hide them by copying and modifying their *.desktop file eg:

cp /usr/share/applications/xfce-settings-manager.desktop ~/.local/share/applications
echo "Hidden=true" >> ~/.local/share/applications/xfce-settings-manager.desktop

you should also be able to hide the whole settings category by editing the menu files (/etc/xdg/menus/) if whiskers menu is xdg compatible

Jerry3904 · 2014-11-14 00:15:26

Alt-F3 will give you the Application Finder, where you can right-click any entry and select Hide. That writes to the desktop file.

cmcanulty · 2014-11-14 00:16:58

One issue is I don't want the public messing with settings but I still need to be able to access their settings for when I need to tweak something

ToZ · 2014-11-14 02:02:50

cmcanulty wrote:

One issue is I don't want the public messing with settings but I still need to be able to access their settings for when I need to tweak something

Just manually run:

xfce4-settings-manager

...from Alt+F2 and it will start up.

MountainDewManiac · 2014-11-14 04:54:21

I'm guessing that anyone can do that. The OP might be interested in a way to raise the permissions of the settings manager to root (if there is one).

Not everyone uses linux, of course - but some do.

Regards,
MDM

sixsixfive · 2014-11-14 11:44:54

>One issue is I don't want the public messing with settings but I still need to be able to access their settings for when I need to tweak something

then hiding isn't really an option, better create a new group eg subadmin and change the write rights for ~/.config/xfce4 to this group so people will not be able to change anything and you can always do something like(adduser or useradd): su -c "adduser $name subadmin", edit and lock it again su -c "deluser $name subadmin"

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cmcanulty · 2014-11-14 13:07:36

what I have done on all the other machines is I hide settings manager then in the unusual instance I need to use it I unhide then tweak it and rehide

cmcanulty · 2014-11-14 13:25:08

that hiding it and running it from F2 sounds like a good option. Our patrons are pretty untechy I never have an issue unless it's something done inadvertantly. Now if I could only hide it

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