[Kde-kiosk] Activation?

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Thursday 22 July 2004 12:17, Florian Roth wrote:
> Hi
>
> I ran kiosktool as root on our 'masterclient' (the computer the image is
> made from) in school an modified the default profile. I locked down the
> proxy settings, set up some desktop icons etc. Then a wanted to assign the
> profile to a group ('users' in this case) so I added a group policy. Here I
> realized, that every group exported from out server over NIS was in the
> list at least twice. I chose one of the 3 user groups and created the
> policy.
> Ich looked at the /etc/kde* (don't know the exactly name here an my private
> computer) file and saw, that the policy was assigned by name and not by
> gid. So this should be no problem, should it? But when I tried to test the
> settings with several accounts, it didn't work. (Simply nothing was
> changed). So I wondered if I had to activate the kiosk features somewhere.
> Maybe someone can help.

Which version of KDE are you using?

You can use "kiosktool-kdedirs --check" to see which profiles are currently 
active.

You probably need to add
  export KDEDIRS=$(kiosktool-kdedirs)
to startkde or xinitrc. 

Adding it to xinitrc only works if startkde doesn't unset KDEDIRS.

Cheers,
Waldo
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