This is a problem that I'm going to face shortly, so I'm responding even
though I don't have a very concrete idea of what wil work. I'd be
interested in hearing what people think of the following ideas.
IIRC, gdm can be configured to autologin a particular user, although I
haven't tried it.
Re: whitelisting, since I assume you don't have to worry [yet] about
active attacks against the whitelisting mechanism, I would just use
iptables on the box itself. Obviously, specifying hostnames resolved by
DNS is a bad idea where security is needed, but should work ok for what
you want. I'm just not sure what will happen if there are multiple
addresses for a particular name.
At least in Gnome, turning off the menubars and icons on the desktop
shouldn't be that much work. I'm not a fan of too much junk on my
desktop, so I often turn off a bunch of the menubars. Right clicking on
them should give you an option 'Delete this panel'
Dave
On Sun, 30 Mar 2008, Alex wrote:
Hi folks. So I have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. The older one won a
computer as a prize for potty training. I am disappointed in what is out
there as an interface for kids - things like
http://www.linux.com/feature/27651
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-jr/
So I will try to set something up myself. What I want is a screen with
absolutely nothing on it except some icons that will launch either
software or a browser to a web site (eg starfall.com, pbskids.org,...).
twm maybe? I shall have to bruch off my X expertise. Any suggestions for
how to do this easily?
It should also boot directly to that screen, bypassing the xdm login. Is
there a simple way to automatically log in a specified user?
It would be good if firefox (or some other browser) could easily be
configured with a whitelist of domains allowed to browse to; clicking on
a link to go elsewhere would just not work. I have looked at a few
parental control systems. Glubble (a firefox plugin) you had to log in
to, which is a non-starter for this purpose. Also, I would prefer a web
browser that hides the top bar and the menus and so forth - so you can
do nothing but use the web page.
Conceptually, I suppose one could take a standard GNOME or KDE setup and
remove functionality until you get what you want, but it seems simpler
to start from nothing and build up instead. I'm just surprised that no
one has done this already.
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