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How do I lock a specific system setting without locking all of my settings? I don't want to make a limited access user account. However, I need to stop my students from adjusting the brightness of their displays. How do I do that?
Not answering the general point, but preventing adjustments of the workplace particularly those involving eye strain would be against health and safety laws in my part if the world. They need to be able to fully adjust chair, monitor height, monitor angle and brightness. Does it cause a safety concern?
It's a problem with the students being able to see what they're doing. They adjust the brightness so low they can not see the menus, tools, etc when working in Motion 5.x, FCPX, and other "pro" apps that use extremely dark interfaces.
So you want it bright enough to see dark mode. That may be unhealthy on light screens.
I think even in a country without European standard of health and safety laws you are setting yourself up for litigation if you enforce a level of brightness that could be presented in court by someone developing eye problems later on.
The only justification I could imagine is two 8-year-olds sharing a screen.
Do they have headsets? If so do you enforce the same volume on all of them?
This is not about using Dark Mode, but FCPX and Motion. Like many professional post-production apps, the interface is extremely dark and low in contrast in order to view your footage more clearly (among other reasons). FCPX and Motion do not have an option to change the low contrast interface. So, when a student has set their brightness all the way down, they can barely see anything. I hear it constantly, "I didn't see it there" when I come by, turn the brightness back up and show them where the tool or menu item is.
This isn't about locking the screen brightness at 100%, it's about keeping the students from turning it so far down that they can't tell what they're looking at.
It befuddles me that there isn't a way to lock certain aspects; brightness, mouse setup, desktop picture (which I use as a way to tell which user account the students are logged in as), etc just in terms of keeping track of settings that are more about making the user experience as simple as possible, not about absolute control over the individual.n But it looks as though this is impossible.
Why would you stop them from changing brightness? It isn’t like it’s a danger or anything.
For Dark Mode, read Dark Screens. My sloppy words.
Someone may have a technical remedy for you - I don't unfortunately.
You just started an old retired Safety Officer going into risk mitigation mode!
Lock a specific System Setting
