[Kde-kiosk] Strange kiosk problem.

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Tue Aug 16 17:23:10 CEST 2005


On Tuesday 16 August 2005 16:12, Prash wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>
> I'm running KDE in kiosk mode and covering the entire screen with my
> own custom login screen (written in Pygtk). It is just a standalone
> application which launches when the mycustomloginscreen.desktop file
> gets executed in the Autostart folder when the default user logs in
> (timed login). Now the problem is there is a slight one or two second
> delay before my custom application loads and during that time the
> desktop is available and users would be able to click anything
>
>  I want my custom application to launch first and then the desktop. Is
> that possible? Or if anyone has an idea on how I should get around
> that one-two sec delay.

See the .desktop files in $KDEDIR/share/autostart In particular the 
X-KDE-autostart-after key that controls the order in which things get 
started.

Cheers,
Waldo
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