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Disable Expose For Certain Users
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Nov 16, 2005, 03:44 PM
 
I work in education, and there are many times that I will have a student using a computer for testing and they are to be doing nothing else but testing. I have set up a user for the testing program, called Tesa, and under that user Tesa is the only program available to use. Unfortunately the program responds to expose buttons being pressed, so students will be distracted by pressing the expose buttons, and fooling around in the finder. Is there any way to disable expose for a user?
     
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Nov 16, 2005, 03:46 PM
 
Yes, under the Exposé prefpane in System Preferences.
     
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Nov 16, 2005, 03:52 PM
 
Originally Posted by Thinine
Yes, under the Exposé prefpane in System Preferences.
I want to disable it for the one user only, not all users. The testing user is set to Simple Finder, so preference pane access is not available.
     
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Nov 16, 2005, 04:05 PM
 
That preference is per user.
     
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Nov 16, 2005, 04:11 PM
 
Originally Posted by Thinine
That preference is per user.
So if I change the preferences for that user and then change the user back to simple finder where the preferences can't be changed) the users preferences will stay? BTW, thanks for the help.
     
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Nov 17, 2005, 12:10 AM
 
They should, since essentially all you'd be doing is changing the keys that activate Exposé to nothing so it can't activate.
     
   
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