KDE User Lockdown

Hello,
I am looking for some tips on locking down KDE settings. We are using RHEL 9 and I am currently working on transitioning my team from Gnome to KDE Plasma 5 Workspace on VDI (because X11 forwarding is trash over VDI for some reason), and I would love to lockdown some of the settings/features so they cannot be changed.

Some examples I am looking to lockdown are changing the desktop and lockscreen images, changing themes, installing widgets. I’d really like to keep the systems at a good baseline while we work through getting everyone transitioned. I’ve read about maybe doing Kiosk mode, but I can’t really find out how to actually get started with it. Some places say there is a setting somewhere that shows kiosk mode, other places say it’s set in ~/.config somewhere.

Ideally it would be great to be able to have everyone start with the same desktop theme (wallpapers and whatnot) but that has already seemed to be an issue as some of the settings (mostly plasma-org.kde.plasma.desktop-appletsrc) we are putting in /etc/skel aren’t copying over when new users login, but I can’t seem to get that to work so I’ve had to use a script to set wallpapers for everyone, so if anyone has any help with that I’d appreciate that as well!

Thanks!

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@mslnerd:

First – welcome to the KDE Discuss Forum.


The system configuration files to be changed are documented at the end of the “Configuration File Structure and Hierarchy” section of the System Administration documentation related to Kiosk –
<KDE’s Configuration File Structure and Hierarchy>
<Kiosk - Simple configuration management for large deployment>

But, there’s also this unanswered KDE Discuss Forums request – <Configuring and testing kiosk mode is giving me a headache.>

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