Administering User Interface Customizations

Users can use the pop-up menus and Install Icon controls of Front Panel 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

1. 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.

2. Add the following line to the control definition:

   	LOCKED   True

To Restore a Deleted Control or Subpanel

The Restore Front Panel action in the Desktop_Tools application group removes all Front Panel customizations made with the user interface. Users can use this action to remove all their personal customizations made with the Front Panel's pop-up menus.

Use the following procedure to restore an individual control.

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:

	CONTROL 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.