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<!ENTITY manrevision "1.0">
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<!ENTITY date "November 2009">
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<!ENTITY app "<application>sabayon</application>">
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<!ENTITY appname "Sabayon">
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<!ENTITY appname "<application>Sabayon</application>">
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<!ENTITY ldquo "“"> <!-- Left Double Quote -->
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<!ENTITY rdquo "”"> <!-- Right Double Quote -->
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&appname; is a system administration tool to manage GNOME desktop
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settings. &appname; provides a sane way to edit GConf defaults
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and GConf mandatory keys: the same way you edit your desktop.
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&appname; launches profiles in a Xephyr window, which provides
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an X session within an X session, like Xnest.
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&appname; launches profiles in a <application>Xephyr</application>
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window, which provides an X session within an X session, like
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<application>Xnest</application>.
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Any changes you make in the Xnest window are saved back to
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the profile file, which can then be applied to user's accounts.
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Currently &appname; is limited to the creation and update of user
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preference profiles. It does not deal with the very large
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problem of actually populating target system with those preferences.
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So far &appname; supports complete files and the configuration format for:
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Any changes you make in the <application>Xnest</application> window
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are saved back to the profile file, which can then be applied to
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user's accounts. Currently &appname; is limited to the creation and
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update of user preference profiles. It does not deal with the very
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large problem of actually populating target system with those
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preferences. So far &appname; supports complete files and the
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configuration format for:
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map out what functions you want your users to have. If you're a
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business, you may wish to provide a GNOME top panel with a set of
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launchers already pre-defined. A teacher may want to disable the
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"Administration" and "Preferences" menu items. These are all
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<guimenuitem>Administration</guimenuitem> and
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<guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem> menu items. These are all
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things you can do with &appname;.
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<title>Creating a profile</title>
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Your first step will be to launch &appname;. If you've installed
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Sabyon from your distribution's package manager, it may have an
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icon available for you under the "Administration" menu. If
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you've installed from source, you may need to launch it
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manually. Press <alt><F2>, and type:
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&appname; from your distribution's package manager, it may have an
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icon available for you under the <guimenu>Administration</guimenu>
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menu. If you've installed from source, you may need to launch it
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<keycombo><keycap>Alt</keycap><keycap>F2</keycap></keycombo>, and type:
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and press enter. After you've authenticated, you should see
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the main window for &appname;:
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and press <keycap>Enter</keycap>. After you've authenticated,
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you should see the main window for &appname;:
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<title>Main Window</title>
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To create a new profile, just click on the "Add" button.
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You'll see a window, called "Add Profile", where you can name the profile, and
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optionally, select an existing profile which will be the basis,
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or starting point of this profile:
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To create a new profile, just click on the <guibutton>Add</guibutton>
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button. You'll see a window, called <guilabel>Add Profile</guilabel>,
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where you can name the profile, and optionally, select an existing
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profile which will be the basis, or starting point of this profile:
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<title>Add Profile</title>
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Now that you've created the profile, you will want to edit it.
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Select the profile name, and click on Edit button:
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Select the profile name, and click on the <guibutton>Edit</guibutton>
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<title>Main window - Edit</title>
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When you are done, you may want to look at what changes to the
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default session that &appname; has detected you've made. You may
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do this by clicking on the "Edit" menu, and selecting
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"Changes". You should see a screen that looks like the
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do this by clicking on the <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu, and selecting
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<guibutton>Changes</guibutton>. You should see a screen that looks
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<title>Changes window</title>
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To have a gconf key set as a "manditory" setting,
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To have a gconf key set as a "mandatory" setting,
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click on it once to turn it into a
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<emphasis>iron</emphasis> shield.
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Then save the profile by selecting Profile -> Save
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The profile is saved in /etc/sabayon/profiles, as a .zip file
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with the name you selected for the profile.
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Then save the profile by selecting <menuchoice><guimenu>Profile
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</guimenu><guimenuitem>Save The Profile</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice> is saved in <filename>/etc/sabayon/profiles</filename>,
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as a <emphasis>.zip</emphasis> file with the name you selected
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<title>Lockdown Editor</title>
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GNOME also includes the lockdown features of
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<filename>Pessulus</filename>, which allow you to do things
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<application>Pessulus</application>, which allow you to do things
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like prevent users from modifying their panels, opening a
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"Run Application" dialogue, etc.
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<guilabel>Run Application</guilabel> dialogue, etc.
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You can use the lockdown editor by selecting Edit ->
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Lockdown on the Desktop editor window.
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You can use the lockdown editor by selecting <menuchoice>
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<guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Lockdown</guimenuitem>
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</menuchoice> on the <guilabel>Desktop editor</guilabel> window.
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<title>Lockdown editor</title>
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Important: it is advisable to create a new user to test the profile.
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Select the profile that you want to apply and click on Users :
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Then, select the users that you want to apply the profile.
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In this example Eleve1 and Eleve 2 will have the profile
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Select the profile that you want to apply and click on
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<guibutton>Users</guibutton> : Then, select the users that you
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want to apply the profile. In this example <emphasis>Eleve1
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</emphasis> and <emphasis>Eleve 2</emphasis> will have the profile
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<filename>my_profile</filename>.
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<title>Apply profile by user</title>
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<title>Via the gui</title>
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Simply use the simply sabayon-apply script above, but
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within the gui tool, select the 'Group' button, and check
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off which groups you wish to apply the profile to.
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Simply use the simply <command>sabayon-apply</command> script,
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which is shipped with &appname; by default, but within the gui
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tool, select the <guibutton>Group</guibutton> button, and check
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off which groups you wish to apply the profile to.
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<title>Apply profile by group</title>
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