[Kde-kiosk] Locking Down KDE

[Neil Munro]

> On Tuesday 15 April 2003 20:41, Brian Stack wrote:
> > I am running Mandrake 9.0, KDE 3.0, and Mozilla 1.1.
> >
> > I want to lock down the desktop to be read only, a script 
> on the desktop
> > will start mozilla when cliked. So it is bacically a read-only web
> > interface hopefully in full screen mode.
> 
> Hello Brian,
> 
> Do you really need KDE then. Why not just start Mozilla up on 
> its own under 
> X? If that is all you want, then googling for "mozilla" and "kiosk"

Just to say that running mozilla directly from X is no good if you want
to use a keyboard as Mozilla apparently expects a window manager to deal
with that. The result is that you can't type in URLs - unless someone
can explain a way round this... I've tried it on RH7/8 with Mozilla 1
and 1.3 and it simply ignores the keyboard.

Neil.