Administering User Interface Customizations

Users can use the controls' pop-up menus and Install Icon controls to extensively customize the Front Panel.

This section describes how to:

Prevent certain personal customizations. For example, you may want to make it impossible for a user to delete a control.
Undo personal customizations. For example, a user might request that you restore a single control accidentally deleted.

To Prevent Personal Customizations

If the control is a built-in control, copy its definition from /usr/dt/appconfig/types/language/dtwm.fp to /etc/dt/appconfig/types/language/name.fp.
Add the following line to the control definition:
LOCKED True

To Restore a Modified Front Panel or Deleted Control or Subpanel

To remove all Front Panel customizations and restore the defaults, use the Restore Front Panel action in the Desktop_Tools application group. This action removes all personal customizations a user has made with the Front Panel's pop-up menus.

To restore an individual control that has been deleted use the following procedure.

In the HomeDirectory/.dt/types/fp_dynamic directory, remove the file that was created when the user deleted the control. The control will have the same name as the original control that was deleted.
For example, if the user deleted the Icon Editor control, a file in the fp_dynamic directory will contain:
IconEditor { ... DELETE True }

When the user deletes a subpanel, a separate dynamic file is created for the subpanel and for each control in the subpanel.

For related information, see “Modifying the Main Panel”.

Administering User Interface Customizations

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To Prevent Personal Customizations

To Restore a Modified Front Panel or Deleted Control or Subpanel