[WEB4LIB] Netscape, the right mouse button, the desktop, frames, etc.

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Charlie,

This is easily fixed problem.

Check out:

http://www.ufaq.org/navcom/defeatwallpaper.html

Andrew Mutch
Electronic Services Support
Northville District Library
Northville, MI


On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Charlie Crawford wrote:

> We use Ikiosk to disable the right mouse button within Netscape. We do
> this primarily so students won't change the desktop wallpaper. So far so
> good. However, we feature to students the print preview capability of
> Netscape, and it is not possible to print preview a framed page. A
> solution to the previewing-a-framed paged problem is to open the frame
> in a new window. One does this with the right mouse button. Therein lies
> our problem.
> 
> The question is: has anyone found a way to protect the desktop from
> unintended backgrounds without disabling the right mouse button in
> Netscape. All of our public access machines run Windows 95. I researched
> the archive to see if this had been addresses before, but I did not find
> an answer to this.
> 
> Thanks in advance. Charlie
> 
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> Charlie Crawford                         email:
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