Re: Desktop Management

From: Grakel (guamy-no_at_prontomail.com)
Date: 03/27/04 

Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 08:13:31 -0800

He gave you the answer , stop being piss ass.
If you can't supervise, maybe you better hire someone that can.
<Grakel>

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:58:22 GMT, "NoSpam" <nomail@spam.not> wrote:

>I take that means you don't know either.
>
>Thanks anyway
>
>
>
>"Chuck Dillon" <cdillon@nimblegen.com> wrote in message
>news:3EE619EE.20304@nimblegen.com...
>> NoSpam wrote:
>> > Hello All,
>> >
>> > I have four pieces of manufacturing equipment that run on Digital UNIX
>v4.0.
>> > I run them on three shifts so I have 12 operators that insist on
>constantly
>> > changing the desktop colors, text color etc.
>> > I really don't care about this but at times there are machine warnings
>or
>> > errors that come up. This is a third party software that doesn't change
>> > color with the Xwindows. So at times they can't be read due to the
>colors on
>> > the desktop.
>> >
>> > My question is does anyone know the name of the executable file that
>starts
>> > the desktop management utility? I would like to either rename it so that
>> > Xwindows doesn't see it or change the access rights to root so that they
>> > can't use it.
>>
>> I'm guessing you are running CDE. If so the program dtstyle is what's
>> used to change colors interactively from the desktop.
>>
>> However, X errs towards allowing users to be able to customize their
>> desktop. Knowledgeable users can change colors outside of dtstyle (or
>> whatever the tool is on your system).
>>
>> The point is that it's not easy to prevent this behavior. I suggest
>> you slap some hands.
>>
>> -- ced
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chuck Dillon
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> NimbleGen Systems Inc.
>>
>

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