[X2Go-Dev] x2goclient.exe - Saving session settings to registry

[John A. Sullivan III]

On Tue, 2012-02-21 at 22:19 +0100, newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de wrote:
> Am 21.02.2012 22:09, schrieb Heinz-M. Graesing:
> > Hello Stefan,
> >
> > Am 21.02.2012 15:51, schrieb newsgroups.mail2 at stefanbaur.de:
> >> Hi List,
> >>
> >> Using the "sessions" file is the default for Linux and AFAIK also for
> >> Mac OS X, so why the variation in x2goclient.exe?
> > The "registry db" is the official recommended place to store application
> > settings on this platform.
> >
> > This means that people (and applications) working with this system are
> > looking for such information inside the registry - not an ini file.
> 
> There is no way to "preseed" a user profile, though, aside from some 
> hacks using reg.exe and a login script, as everything gets written to 
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER. You cannot set a domain- or machine-specific 
> default/template (the User named ".Default" does not what one might 
> think it does ;-)) . Also, once it is written to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, the 
> user can change it at will, there is no way to set it to read-only 
> (while there is --no-session-edit, there's nothing to stop the user from 
> clicking on x2goclient.exe directly).
> 
> Then again, the problem should become moot in about three weeks time, 
> when selectively publishing applications becomes available. ;-)
> 
> > As this option is already is introduced I think a second option can only
> > be introduced as "optional".
> Or, you could add an autosensing capability: If there's a sessions file 
> present, pick that, if not, write to the registry. That way, copying a 
> sessions file / touching an empty file in the default location would 
> tell x2goclient that it should refrain from storing data in the registry.
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I'm a Windows ignoramus but is this something that could be set with a
GPO? - John