On Oct 22, 2009, at 8:46 AM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to configure persistent desktop icons, e. g. shortcuts > that users can't delete ? On most of my client desktops, I have some > home-made shortcuts, like here for example : > > http://www.microlinux.fr/configurations.html > > The shortcut on the lower left corner of the screen launches the > public > library management system. > > Most of the users are quite computer-illiterate, and more often than > not, they tend to erase these shortcuts (and then call me panic- > stricken > at 07:00 in the morning :oD). > > To configure the shortcuts themselves, I just edit a .desktop file by > hand. I tried various combinations of chown and chmod, but to no > avail. > Even if there are minimum access rights, the thing can still be erased > with a right click. > > Now I vaguely remember that a standard openSUSE install has something > like persistent desktop shortcuts (for the SUSE help center or > something > like that), and I wonder: how do they do it ? > > Any suggestions ? Look under /usr/share/(apps,applications,...) there should be a directory called Desktop that is used for both KDE and Gnome, part of the freedesktop initiative (like LSB for Linux GUIs). # find /usr/share -t d -name Desktop -print -Ross