[Kde-kiosk] Is Kiosk what I need?

[Waldo Bastian]

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 18:30, Dylan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've read the readme, but seem to be none the wiser. I'm wanting to do the
> following:
>
> On boxes in the childrens' bedrooms:
> A: Boot directly to their user account without login.

You can configure this in KDM (Control Center -> System -> Login Manager)
in the Convenience tab.

> B: Shutdown automatically at logout, without option to 'login as different
> user'

You can configure this in KSMServer (Control Center -> System -> Session 
Manager). You can at least configure that "shutdown" is the default action. 
Not sure if that still gives you a chance to select something else as well.

> C: remove access to any app which will ask for a root password.

Add the following to kdeglobalsrc:

[KDE Action Restrictions][$i]
user/root=false

(That one was covered by the readme ;-)

> On my user account, I use two different machines, one in my office with 21"
> monitor running at 1600x<whatever> and onr in the living room with 17"
> running at 1024:
> A: Have the desktop metrics reflect the machine I'm on,

I do not understand what you mean with this. 

> B: Display the appropriate device icons on the desktop.

In Control Center -> Desktop -> Behavior you can select "Display devices on 
desktop" and which devices should be shown and which not. This is combined 
with the actual devices that are found (enter "devices:" as URL in konqueror)

You may have device-links in the form of .desktop or .kdelnk files in your 
~/Desktop directory already (I have). You should remove those otherwise you 
have them double :)

You can also go the manual route and copy on each machine appropriate .desktop
device links to $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdesktop/Desktop. Those will then be shown
to every user that logins on that machine.

Cheers,
Waldo
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