<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
      xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
      type="topic" style="task"
      id="lockdown-printing">
     
  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="user-settings#lockdown"/>
    <link type="seealso" xref="dconf-lockdown" />
    <revision pkgversion="3.11" date="2014-12-04" status="review"/>

    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Jana Svarova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">jana.svarova@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>
    <credit type="author copyright">
      <name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
      <email its:translate="no">kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
      <years>2014</years>
    </credit>

    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>

    <desc>Prevent the user from printing documents.</desc>
  </info>

  <title>Disable printing</title>

  <p>You can disable the print dialog from being shown to users. This can be
  useful if you are giving temporary access to a user or you do not want the
  user to print to network printers.</p>

  <note style="warning">
    <p>This feature will only work in applications which support it! Not all
    GNOME and third party applications have this feature enabled. These changes
    will have no effect on applications which do not support this feature.</p>
  </note>

  <steps>
    <title>Disable printing</title>
    <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
             xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user'])"
             xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
    <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
             xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-profile-user-dir'])"
             xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
    <item>
      <p>Create the key file
      <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-printing</file> to provide
      information for the <sys>local</sys> database.</p>
      <listing>
        <title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-printing</file></title>
<code>
# Specify the dconf path
[org/gnome/desktop/lockdown]
 
# Prevent applications from printing
disable-printing=true
</code>
     </listing>
    </item>
    <item>
      <p>To prevent the user from overriding these settings, create the file
      <file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/printing</file> with the following
      content:</p>
      <listing>
        <title><file>/etc/dconf/db/local.db/locks/printing</file></title>
<code>
# Lock file saving settings
org.gnome.desktop.lockdown.disable-printing
</code>
      </listing>
    </item>
    <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
             xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-update'])"
             xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
    <include href="dconf-snippets.xml"
             xpointer="xpointer(/*/*[@xml:id='dconf-logoutin'])"
             xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </steps>

</page>
