Applies to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5

10 GNOME Configuration for Administrators #

This chapter introduces GNOME configuration options which administrators can use to adjust system-wide settings, such as customizing menus, installing themes, configuring fonts, changing preferred applications, and locking down capabilities.

These configuration options are stored in the Dconf system. Access the Dconf system with tools such as the dconf command line interface or the dconf-editor GUI tool.

10.1 Starting Applications Automatically #

To automatically start applications in GNOME, use one of the following methods:

To run applications for each user: Put .desktop files in /usr/share/gnome/autostart.
To run applications for an individual user: Put .desktop files in ~/.config/autostart.

To disable an application that starts automatically, add X-Autostart-enabled=false to the .desktop file.

10.2 Automounting and Managing Media Devices #

GNOME Files (nautilus) monitors volume-related events and responds with a user-specified policy. You can use GNOME Files to automatically mount hotplugged drives and inserted removable media, automatically run programs, and play audio CDs or video DVDs. GNOME Files can also automatically import photos from a digital camera.

System administrators can set system-wide defaults. For more information, see Section 10.3, “Changing Preferred Applications”.

10.3 Changing Preferred Applications #

To change users' preferred applications, edit /etc/gnome_defaults.conf. Find further hints within this file.

For more information about MIME types, see http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/shared-mime-info-spec.

10.4 Adding Document Templates #

To add document templates for users, fill in the Templates directory in a user's home directory. You can do this manually for each user by copying the files into ~/Templates, or system-wide by adding a Templates directory with documents to /etc/skel before the user is created.

A user creates a new document from a template by right-clicking the desktop and selecting Create Document.

10.5 For More Information #

For more information, see http://help.gnome.org/admin/.