Menu configuration on per user basis
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Menu configuration on per user basis
I am setting up some laptops for 5-8 grade students. I want to limit the number of applications they see in the Desktop menu. However, as system admin, I want to keep the full default menu for myself. Is there a way to edit the menu on a per user or per group basis? That is, when the students login they will see a limited menu, but when I login I will see the full default menu.
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billyswong
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Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
Menu editing is per user by default. Right click menu icon > configure > menu > open the menu editor. Then one can hide items or categories for the current user. The config is stored in ~/.config/menus/cinnamon-applications.menu and you may copy it to home folder of other users.
Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
Thanks for the information.
Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
I have finally gotten around to configuring student user menus. However, when I look at the path "/home/student1-58/.config/menus", I see:
root@MOLS-S58-00:/home/student1-58/.config/menus# ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 applications-merged
lrwxrwxrwx 1 student1-58 students-58 51 Jan 31 11:49 cinnamon-applications-merged -> /home/student1-58/.config/menus/applications-merged
cinnamon-applications.menu doesn't exist. Instead, there is a softlink, cinnamon-applications-merged, to a directory applications-merged.
This is the .config directory of a freshly installed user. Perhaps that makes a difference? In any case, there isn't a file I can replace.
root@MOLS-S58-00:/home/student1-58/.config/menus# ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 3 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 .
drwxr-xr-x 16 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 student1-58 students-58 4096 Jan 31 11:49 applications-merged
lrwxrwxrwx 1 student1-58 students-58 51 Jan 31 11:49 cinnamon-applications-merged -> /home/student1-58/.config/menus/applications-merged
cinnamon-applications.menu doesn't exist. Instead, there is a softlink, cinnamon-applications-merged, to a directory applications-merged.
This is the .config directory of a freshly installed user. Perhaps that makes a difference? In any case, there isn't a file I can replace.
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billyswong
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Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
Maybe recheck after you done some menu item hiding configuration?
Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
Will do. Thanks.
Re: Menu configuration on per user basis
To complete the latest question, for a freshly created user, the directory /home/<user>/.config/menu doesn't exist. So, I created it (i.e., the menu subdirectory) and put a pre-saved version of cinnamon-applications.menu into it. When the user logged in for the first time, the menu that appeared was that conforming to the cinnamon-applications.menu file.