[sylpheed:33020] Re: Safe or locked-down mode?

Bob White bob at bob-white.com
Thu Jun 25 11:28:19 JST 2009


On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:04:20 +1000
Erik de Castro Lopo <mle+tools at mega-nerd.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> My elderly father uses Sylpheed under Ubunut. However,  he is not
> very computer literate and keeps on messing it up, hiding the 
> menu or button bars, or  the  windows etc. Once he does it, he
> can never figure out how to undo it.
> 
> Is there a way to lock this down to  prevent these kinds of
> problems?
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Erik de Castro Lopo
> http://www.mega-nerd.com/

Hi Erik,

You might try making the appropriate file config file read only.  Sorry, I'm away from my Linux box at the moment, so can't look at which file or test it to see if it works without messing up something else.

Bob W.


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