Hi, I note from here:
https://features.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/edubuntu-edgy-cd-diet that there is talk of using epiphany and that this will facilitate a kiosk mode. I'd like to create some kind of kiosk mode for students to access the web. I have set up a thin client, which is logged in with a guest account called "student" and its .Xsession reads: exec firefox which makes it just launch firefox, no gnome, etc. When firefox closes, the session ends and it goes back out to the login screen. It seems I can lock down firefox or mozilla a fair way using one of these https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/509/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1659/ so that'll be one of the next issues. This is all _okay_, but problems include: 1. It would be nice to auto-login certain thin clients using lts.conf. Is this possible currently? 2. As I understand it, Firefox will not be happy if I try to use this simultaneously on two desktops. I will have either create two profiles or two accounts (probably handier). Is anyone aware of a way to have firefox run with some sort of read-only profile so several clients can use the one profile? 3. Users can set bookmarks, preferences, etc. which I don't want -- unless they get nuked at logout. I guess I can add exec rm -rf ~/.mozilla/ to my xsession, but that's a bit nasty. If [1] can be solved, that would be excellent. I guess that's going to involve some hacking of lwm though? Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
