[Kde-kiosk] how to force users to log into KDE (modify KDM menu)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 10:52:22PM +0200, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 June 2005 22:31, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > yeah, i love reports which i can close right away with an RTFM comment.
> > actually, it'd be cool to have an extra resolution for them. :-)=)
> 
> Could you please stop playing the l33t antisocial programmer and instead 
> provide some helpful information instead?
> 
no, that would be boring. apart from that it would make the non-1337
persons feel comfortable with their ignorance/laziness/stupidity. i know
it from personal experience. ;)

> Taking a look at help:/kdm/different-window-managers-with-kdm.html in 
> Konqueror it seems to me that Mr Wiggles has to do the following:
> 
> 1. Remove all existing .desktop files in $KDEDIR/share/apps/kdm/sessions, or
>     edit them and add a line Hidden=true.
> 
bad idea, next install will overwrite them all.
the location counts. the manual is pretty explicit about it (last
paragraph).

> 2. Add three extra .desktop files, "default.desktop", "custom.desktop" and
>     "failsafe.desktop", all of which contain the following two lines:
> 
>         [Desktop Entry]
>         Hidden=true
> 
yes ... it even won't be killed if saved in the wrong location, because
we don't ship such files. :)

> > somebody wants to write a "kiosking kdm" mini-howto to avoid running
> > in circles next time?
> 
> If the above is true then this mail can qualify as that howto :)
> 
listing all options that populate the menu would make sense as well.
without some RTFM i don't recall them all, either.

oh, that reminds me that i still have some TFM updates pending ... damn.

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