Re: KDE - How to disable the Switch User and Lock in Leave Menu ?

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Hi,

I have got it to work with the help from KDE enterprise developer!

First, the relevant file should be whatever kdeglobals file the command "kde4-config --path config" lists.

Second, need to set the config to:

    switch_user=false

*as well as*
   
    action/switch_user=false

It is a bug in the underlying code, one of the many things that got fixed properly when they redid everything in Plasma5. It's much improved in this area.


In my case, what I did was:

1.  "kde4-config --path config" returns:

~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/:/etc/kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/:/usr/share/config/

2. Go through all the folders and find two kdeglobals files:

~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals

3. Update ~/home/zaiwen/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals with:

[KDE Action Restrictions]
action/switch_user=false
 switch_user=false
action/start_new_session=false
start_new_session=false
action/lock_screen=false
lock_screen=false

4. Update /usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/kdeglobals.  In this file, it contains one line which doesn't allow users to change KDE Action. Remove this line:

[KDE Action Restrictions][$i]

Now when I login, "Switch User" and "Lock" are removed from the Leave menu!

Thanks a lot!

Zaiwen



On 03/13/18 10:04, Zaiwen Gong wrote:

Hi Kevin and René J.V. Bertin,

I did some tests.

With Plasma 5 (plasma-desktop-5.10.5-1.fc27.x86_64), I got it to work by appending the following lines to my "$HOME/.config/kdeglobals":

    [KDE Action Restrictions]
    action/start_new_session=false
    action/switch_user=false
    action/lock_screen=false

But I can't get it to work with Plasma 4.10. I tried $HOME/.config/kdeglobals", $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals, ksmserverrc, plasma-desktoprc,  plasma-desktop-appletsrc, none is working.

Not sure if it is not supported in Plasma 4 or is it because I don't install plasma 4 correctly?

Thanks,

Zaiwen



On 03/13/18 05:36, Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Dienstag, 13. März 2018 10:30:53 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:

On Monday March 12 2018 10:05:46 Kevin Krammer wrote:

Hi,

[...]


You could also try ksmserverrc or plasmarc

Also consider asking at the KDE Enterprise mailinglist

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/enterprise

It is used by sysadmins who manage KDE deployments and often discuss action
restrictions.

I've often tried to configure the "Leave" menu so it never includes the
Suspend-to-Disk option. Same advice, or is that something I should address
at a level below KDE?

I would say generally same advice (ask on kde-enterprise), but if you want to 
disable it globally then there might indeed be a system level option.

Zaiwen's problem was a bit different since only specific accounts should have 
the options disabled.

Cheers,
Kevin


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