[Kde-kiosk] Restricting Window Close Buttons/Keys

[John Vestrum]

On Wednesday 04 December 2002 03:00 am, Russell Brown wrote:
> We have users who telnet to a curses/VT100 application using an 'xterm'

First off, see www.openssh.com

> window. This application can involve a series of database updates and
> terminating the process halfway is most undesirable so I need to stop
> them blowing away the xterm by clicking the window close titlebar button,
> Pressing Alt-F4 or using menu "Window Close".
>
> The only way they should be able to get out of the 'curses' application
> is for the server end to cleanly close the session.

I had the same problem, and I also had no luck searching for a way to do this 
with the window manager. So I grabbed the source for rxvt, a relatively 
lightweight and easy-to-compile xterm replacement, and hacked it. I only had 
to comment out a few lines to get rxvt to ignore the window close signal.

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John Vestrum
Assistant Systems Administrator
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
jvestrum@ordway.org