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- About This Guide
- I Advanced Administration
- II System
- 8 32-Bit and 64-Bit Applications in a 64-Bit System Environment
- 9 Booting a Linux System
- 10 The
systemdDaemon - 11
journalctl: Query thesystemdJournal - 12 The Boot Loader GRUB 2
- 13 Basic Networking
- 14 UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface)
- 15 Special System Features
- 16 Dynamic Kernel Device Management with
udev
- III Services
- IV Mobile Computers
- A An Example Network
- B GNU Licenses
7 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 GConf system. Access the
GConf system with tools such as the gconftool-2 command
line interface or the gconf-editor GUI tool.
7.1 Starting Applications Automatically #
To automatically start applications in GNOME, use one of the following methods:
To run applications for each user: Put
.desktopfiles in/usr/share/gnome/autostart.To run applications for an individual user: Put
.desktopfiles in~/.config/autostart.
To disable an application that starts automatically, add
X-Autostart-enabled=false to the
.desktop file.
7.2 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 7.3, “Changing Preferred Applications”.
7.3 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.
7.4 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 .
7.5 For More Information #
For more information, see http://help.gnome.org/admin/.