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you assign them to groups and users. Kiosk also lets you automatically deploy profiles
to a remote host.
Start the Kiosk Admin Tool from the KDE main menu or with Alt + F2 and the command
kiosktool.
11.1.1 Creating a New Profile
To create a new profile, click Add New Profile. In the dialog that opens, enter a Profile
name and a Short description. You can also specify an owner to which the files of the
profile should belong. The user specified here must have write access to the profile di-
rectory. You also need to know the password of the user specified here. See
Section
"Deploying Profiles to the Local Machine"
(page 291) for more information about the
profile directory.
It is possible to change the data entered here any time with Profile Properties.
11.1.2 Setting Up a Profile
By choosing an existing profile and clicking Setup Profile, set up configurations for all
KDE components, such as icons, menus, and file associations. After choosing a compo-
nent, activate a restriction by checking the box of the respective entry. Choosing an
entry with the mouse displays a help text explaining the effect the restriction has.
Entries either describe a specific feature that you can disable (such as Disable Logout
option) or describe configuration options that you can lock down (such as Lock down
Screen Saver Settings). By doing so, the feature or configuration option is not available
when the profile is used.
Apart from disabling features and locking down configuration options, you can also
configure the look and feel of the desktop itself. When selecting the components
Desktop Icon, Desktop Background, Screen Saver, KDE Menu, and Panel, get two ad-
ditional buttons—Setup and Preview. When clicking Setup, the desktop settings of the
currently selected profile are loaded and temporarily overwrite your own desktop set-
tings. Now you can make changes just as you would when configuring your own
desktop. When you confirm your changes by clicking Save, the changes made are per-
manently added to the profile and your own desktop settings are restored.
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