locking the panel to users

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Op di 09-03-2004, om 21:55 schreef Alvise:
> Hi everyone,
> 	first of all I'd like to thank the xfce staff for their amazing work: I 
> have been using this since quite some time (maybe the first xfce 
> release, if my memory is right) and it just got better and better.
> I am planning to use xfce4 on many computers in a library that need to 
> be "locked",i.e. they just have to let mozilla run.
> I looked around to understend how to do this, and got into 2 steps: 
> modify and chown the user's menu.xml, and lock his panel via 
> XFCE_DISABLE_USER_CONFIG.
> Here's my problem: setting the enviroment variable I achieve that user 
> cannot modify elements in the panel, but I can't get rid of the "Add 
> item" in the panel's menu.
> In truth, if the user adds a launcher it will be gone in the next 
> session, but I'd really prefer if he can't add anything at all!
> I have seen in the Mailing List archives that someone says that setting 
> XFCE_DISABLE_USER_CONFIG will hide that menu, but it doesn't seem to 
> work for me...Any clue?
> 
> Thank you for your attention and help.
> 

I just tested and it does seem to work here. What version of xfce are
you using?