[Kde-kiosk] Locking Down KDE

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 16 April 2003 00:56, Neil Munro wrote:
> > 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.

You can still start a simple window manager. Or e.g. kwin only.

Cheers,
Waldo
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