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I have a problem of lots of people changing my desktop background. Is there a way that I can make people have to input an administrators password to change the desktop background. I am running ubuntu 12.04 lts with unity 2d.

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I don't know what your are doing and why they change your desktop background but you could let the other users only use the 'guest session' (a default feature -> the login screen shows a guest session login button) or create a separate user account for them (System Settings -> User Accounts).

Another solution but more a dirty hack:

You could set the background using a cronjob every ~5 min:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png"

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@ Paradiesstaub The problem is that people are changing the desktop background on school computers to really bad or annoying backgrounds and I want to lock it on the default background – wil Jan 12 at 2:35
I haven't found a good solution (the dconfig lock stuff broke the system), only a hack. You could set the background using a cronjob every ~5 min: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri "file:///usr/share/backgrounds/warty-final-ubuntu.png" – Paradiesstaub Jan 12 at 11:17
@ Paradiesstaub make that an answer. – wil Jan 14 at 17:25

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