11.4. Setting Up Mandatory Extensions
11.4. Setting Up Mandatory Extensions In GNOME Shell, you can provide a set of extensions that the user has to use. To do so, install the extensions in the /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions directory and then lock down the org.gnome.shell.enabled-extensions and org.gnome.shell.development-tools keys. Locking down the org.gnome.shell.development-tools key ensures that the user cannot use GNOME Shell's integrated debugger and inspector tool ( Looking Glass ) to disable any mandatory extensions. Procedure 11.4. Setting up mandatory extensions Create a local database file for machine-wide settings in /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-extensions-mandatory : The enabled-extensions key specifies the enabled extensions using the extensions' uuid ( myextension1@myname.example.com and myextension2@myname.example.com ). The development-tools key is set to false to disable access to Looking Glass . Override the user's setting and prevent the user from changing it in /etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/extensions-mandatory : Update the system databases: Users must log out and back in again before the system-wide settings take effect.
List all mandatory extensions enabled-extensions=[' myextension1@myname.example.com ', ' myextension2@myname.example.com '] Disable access to Looking Glass development-tools=false Lock the list of mandatory extensions and access to Looking Glass /org/gnome/shell/enabled-extensions /org/gnome/shell/development-tools dconf update