[Kde-kiosk] how to force users to log into KDE (modify KDM menu)
Mr Wiggles
astalavista.box.sk at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 22:18:30 CEST 2005
Thanks for your help. Someone on the novell SuSe forums suggested I
just used xdm.
modified one file with one little letter and voila, looks like im all set now :)
What is the preference some people would have for KDM over XDM?
On 6/20/05, Russell Brown <russell at lls.lls.com> wrote:
> Quoth Mr Wiggles.....
> >Ok, I read that section....not sure where I was "supposed" to find it
> >but I googled and found it here:
>
> <snip Xsession editing stuff>
>
> Not sure that helps you control kdm 3.2 onwards. To quote from the kdm
> README: "The way session types are configured changed drastically in
> KDE 3.2".
>
> It goes on to says that the whole session thing has changed to
> '.desktop' type files. To the kde startup is now controled by
> xxx.desktop in .../kdm/sessions.
>
> However the Xsession stuff is still in the kdmrc file :-( Confusing.
>
> The README says that you can override or mask the 'shipped' session
> types with .desktop files containing "Hidden=yes". Unfortunatley, the
> inbuild 'custom, default and failsafe' entries can't be masked in this
> way as, from the source code for kdm 3.3.2 around line 459, it seems to
> always force these default entries onto the menu.
>
> What would be simpler for kiosk environments is a switch to just turn
> off the Menu button and have a default session (it doesn't seem possible
> to set a default session type for first time login).
>
> Hmmmm.... and kdm used to be nice for kiosk use :-(
>
> --
> Regards,
> Russell
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