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Few questions to help finnishof install

yerdna

Tue Jun 11, 2019 5:14:43 pm

First thank you for making truly slick Linux experience .
So far i have it on desktop and laptop and everything is working great . Since i have a child and sometimes her friends or family friends need to use computer i have few questions .
Are there plans for easy Gui for parental controls ?
I think it would be feature most welcomed by most parents ..
What are the chances of having temporary guest account that gets wiped after guest logs out ?
Not having any traces of your friends activity on your PC would be goo thing to have . i think Elementary OS has that feature .
Is there a caps lock indicator for task bar , i dont seem to have any luck finding one . My laptop does not have any lights to indicate one way or another .
When enabling firewall i loose aces to NAS drive . How would i go about finding where in firewall rules it blocks Samba access to NAS ?
So far , so good . Nothing to be considered a deal breaker . Keep up the good work folks .

Swarfendor437

Tue Jun 11, 2019 8:08:11 pm

yerdna wrote:First thank you for making truly slick Linux experience .
So far i have it on desktop and laptop and everything is working great . Since i have a child and sometimes her friends or family friends need to use computer i have few questions .
Are there plans for easy Gui for parental controls ?
The only thing available at present is this: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/06/t ... ental.html Also consider using OpenDNS to control what users have access to: https://www.opendns.com/home-internet-security/ Also when adding users such as child and friends/family friends, set them up as a 'Standard' user so that they won't be able to wreak havoc on your system.
I think it would be feature most welcomed by most parents ..
What are the chances of having temporary guest account that gets wiped after guest logs out ?
This would have been present in earlier versions of Zorin, possibly 12 but has been removed - see why here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1112349 ... 4-or-later
Not having any traces of your friends activity on your PC would be goo thing to have . i think Elementary OS has that feature .
Is there a caps lock indicator for task bar , i dont seem to have any luck finding one . My laptop does not have any lights to indicate one way or another .
Yes - you firstly have to install 'gnome-tweaks' in a Terminal Window - Menu | Utilities | Terminal or Ctrl+ Alt+ T:
Code:
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweaks

Then go to this site: https://extensions.gnome.org/ and make sure you add the extension add-on for Chrome/Firefox before proceeding - makes life a lot easier to install additional extensions/updates.
and install this wonderful extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/ ... indicator/

When enabling firewall i loose aces to NAS drive . How would i go about finding where in firewall rules it blocks Samba access to NAS ?
I'm no NAS or firewall expert but take a look here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=246961
and here that a link in the thread points to:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=88146
Please note that in Zorin it is still 'gksu gedit' - we don't use Mint here! ;)

So far , so good . Nothing to be considered a deal breaker . Keep up the good work folks .

yerdna

Tue Jun 11, 2019 11:19:54 pm

Thanks friend , got some reading to do now .