[Kde-kiosk] Is Kiosk what I need?

[Dylan]

On Friday 28 February 2003 22:24, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 28 February 2003 19:39, Dylan wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > on the 21", I need the icons and panel set to large sizes which dominate
> > the 17", conversely if I set the sizes to reflect the 17" they are
> > unusable on the 21". I noticed that I can use the hostname in the
> > configs, but I don't see how I can use that info to effect this
> > behaviour.
>
> Ah, ok, I understand. What you can do is put a kickerrc in
> $KDEDIR/share/config on both of your computers and lock the parts that
> specify the sizes by putting [$i] behind the keys. E.g.
> CustomSize[$i]=58
> Size[$i]=2
>
> You will then no longer be able to change these settings but they will be
> dependant on the machine you are running.

OK, that's fine for me - but means every user is stuck with my settings...

>
> There are some config options that are being saved indexed with the active
> screen resolution, that way you can maintain different settings for
> different resolutions. I will have a look to see if I can make use of that
> here as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo

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