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

[John Burke]

Charlie,

You can use Ikiosk to disable individual functions that the right mouse
button enables.  That way you can restrict the "Save as wallpaper" choice
but not the others.  I can't remember if I did that by recording a right
mouse click or if Ikiosk released an update that made it possible, but it
should work with the record function.  If you have trouble with it, please
let me know.

John

John J. Burke, MSLS  |  Systems/Public Services Librarian
University of Cincinnati - Raymond Walters College Library
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At 11:15 AM 10/30/98 -0800, 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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