OT: Anyone know of a way to lock the Dock in Leopard?

[Scott Morrow]

Here at our elementary school teachers have discussed the desirability 
of being able to lock the dock.  Students accidentally drag the icons 
out... or discover it is fun to make them disappear.  I have found that 
running a secondary user account with "Modify Dock" permissions "off" 
is almost more trouble than replacing the icons because of the time it 
takes to switch back and forth between accounts (OSX 10.2 - 10.4) 
anytime a change needs to be made.

I'm now happily testing a rev app that runs on startup and executes Jim 
Sims'  shell() script.

Is there a method to discover whether the dock is currently locked or 
not?

Scott Morrow
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On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Jim Sims wrote:

> Terminal
>
> To LOCK the Dock use:
>
> defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool true
> killall Dock
>
> To UNLOCK use:
>
> defaults write com.apple.dock contents-immutable -bool false
> killall Dock
>


On Jan 11, 2008, at 10:26 AM, Troy Rollins wrote:

>
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 1:08 PM, Derek Bump wrote:
>
>> The reason I would like to lock the items in the dock is because a 
>> customer of mine would REALLY benefit from it.  He's an older man, 
>> and with his arthritis, he has problems with clicking and dragging.  
>> When he intends to click once (such as on an icon in the dock), he'll 
>> accidentally hold down the mouse button for too long and drag the 
>> mouse a little.  Poof... the icon he's gotten accustomed to clicking 
>> is now gone.
>
> I know that one of the user account permissions is "modify dock". It 
> would seem that perhaps this user shouldn't have that permission 
> enabled.
>
> --
> Troy
> RPSystems, Ltd.
> http://www.rpsystems.net