[Kde-kiosk] desktop only

[Lubos Lunak]

On Friday 18 of April 2003 14:46, Florian Effenberger wrote:
> Hi Lubos,
>
> okay, now it works a little bit better ;-)
>
> My .xession looks like:
>
> ===
> /usr/bin/kdeinit
> /usr/bin/kwin &
> /usr/bin/kdesktop --nofork
> /usr/bin/kdeinit_shutdown
> ===
>
> I get my desktop and I can launch programs from there. The problem is, that
> logging out seems only possible with Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, and then some
> programs seem to hang (e.g. kdeinit, cf. ps auxw).
>
> When I say logoff, I get a message box telling me that (sorry, have to
> translate from German) a "regular logoff is not possible" because the
> "session manager doesn't react". Any workaround for that?

 I don't know about any workaround, but you could try simply run the session 
manager - it's ksmserver. I already described how to block starting kicker 
etc. in the previous mail.
 In fact, thinking about it, you don't need to run kwin or kdesktop manually - 
kwin will be started from ksmserver, and kdesktop will be started too if you 
don't disable it in $KDEDIRS/share/autostart. So I think you could use normal 
startkde script, and only disable things in $KDEDIRS/share/autostart that you 
don't want, and possibly check the startkde script too (e.g. for the 
splashscreen or starting kpersonalizer on the first start).

-- 
Lubos Lunak
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