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Create a profile

Your first step in creating profiles for your users will be to map out what functions you want your users to have. If you're a business, you may wish to provide a GNOME top panel with a set of launchers already pre-defined. A teacher may want to disable the Administration and Preferences menu items. These are all things you can do with Sabayon.

3.1. Creating a profile

Your first step will be to launch Sabayon. If you've installed Sabayon from your distribution's package manager, it may have an icon available for you under the Administration menu. If you've installed from source, you may need to launch it manually. Press Alt+F2, and type: 

gksu sabayon

and press Enter. After you've authenticated, you should see the main window for Sabayon:

Figure 1 Main Window

Sabayon's main window for creating, and applying profiles.

To create a new profile, just click on the Add button. You'll see a window, called Add Profile, where you can name the profile, and optionally, select an existing profile which will be the basis, or starting point of this profile:

Figure 2 Add Profile

Add Profile window for Sabayon.

Now that you've created the profile, you will want to edit it. Select the profile name, and click on the Edit button:

Figure 3 Main window - Edit

Main window - Edit

A "desktop within a window" is opened:

Figure 4 Edit Desktop

Edit desktop

Within this window, you may make whatever changes to the profile that you wish. You can add launchers or applets to the panels, add launchers to the desktop, or create example files in the home directory.

When you are done, you may want to look at what changes to the default session that Sabayon has detected you've made. You may do this by clicking on the Edit menu, and selecting Changes. You should see a screen that looks like the following:

Figure 5 Changes window

Edit Sabayon's saved actions in the changes window Edit desktop

You can modify what Sabayon will save in the profile in the changes screen:

  1. If you want Sabayon to ignore a setting that's been made, check the Ignore checkbox for that item.
  2. To have a gconf key set as a "default" setting, simply leave it as is on the wooden shield. it's silver.
  3. To have a gconf key set as a "mandatory" setting, click on it once to turn it into a iron shield.

Then save the profile by selecting Profile  ▸ Save The Profile is saved in /etc/sabayon/profiles, as a .zip file with the name you selected for the profile.

3.2. Lockdown Editor

GNOME also includes the lockdown features of Pessulus, which allow you to do things like prevent users from modifying their panels, opening a Run Application dialogue, etc.

You can use the lockdown editor by selecting Edit ▸ Lockdown on the Desktop editor window.

Figure 6 Lockdown editor

Edit GNOME's lockdown settings from Sabayon.

Installation Applying Profiles