[Kde-kiosk] newbie question

[Ryan Punt]

First off, thanks for the reply.

Of course, the machine will not run a root desktop; this is merely a 
question of "why," an annoyance rather than a necessity.  The fact that 
the root desktop doesn't work really doesn't affect me all that much (my 
debian boxes don't even have a GUI installed, I'm perfectly comfortable 
with a BASH prompt), but I want to know WHY it changed, and how to revert.

By "I'm annoyed by this change," I mean that prior to using the Kiosk 
admin tool, everything worked as one would expect.  After, root's 
default session was FVWM with a YAST2 window front-and-center (and 
exec'd, apparently, as closing the window ends the session).

The 9.2 install is quite vanilla, and the config files listed were 
pulled directly from the machine.

In the end, I guess the question is this: how do I "turn off" Kiosk 
mode?  The changes to the root desktop suggest that while I don't have 
any kiosk user profiles active, something is still set; I'd like an idea 
what that is.

Thanks,
Ryan

Martijn Klingens wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 17:24, Ryan Punt wrote:
> 
>>The only problem I'm having at this point is that logging in as root at
>>the console gives me a FVWM session, not KDE.  The FVWM session loads
>>YAST2, so administration is possible, but I'm annoyed by this change.
>>I've looked through the kiosk tool and no profiles are active, but I've
>>no idea how to restore my typical root session.  Google has turned up
>>nothing but the apparently-self-replicating Linux Magazine "Kiosk Howto"
>>article.  Can anyone help?
> 
> 
> First of all I would like to recommend you to *NOT* run your desktop as root. 
> Even a system administrator in Linux generally doesn't ever need to run an 
> entire desktop as root.
> 
> That having said, I wonder what you mean by "[...] but I'm annoyed by this 
> change". Has it worked correctly before and stopped now? Or has it never 
> worked?
> 
> If it has stopped working properly, could it be that the kde3rc you're listing 
> is different from SuSE 9.2's? If you don't know I can try to compare the file 
> tomorrow at work where I have a mostly vanilla 9.2 system. My laptop at home 
> is running a quite heavily modified 9.1 and thus no longer qualifies...