I thought I had a pretty good setup for web-only internet kiosks via LTSP.
I setup the OPERA browser in kiosk mode, running without a windowmanager.
.xsessions in the guest user home directory just has:
opera -kioskmode -someotheroptions...
KDM is set to autologin the guest user on three ThinkNICs.
It all works quite well. CTRL-ALT-DLT will just refresh the browser, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPC does the same. Every once and a while the autologin will not work and a KDM login prompt will show up, but there is really no option available to the user other than logging in as guest (I would like to see this loggin prompt NEVER show up, any ideas?).
Anyway, to my surprise, I found that one of the guests had gotten a full KDE session going and was installing mozilla, and all sorts of stuff in the guest user account.Where did I go wrong?
We discovered in our caf� that clients often brought in or wanted to work on a CV. Having openoffice available has proved useful. We also have amsn available so the tourists can chat with folks back home.
A lot of our time is spent helping the clients do things they found difficult at home.. (Caf� is in small town in south of France).
In short we use kde, MozillaFirebird, amsn, openoffice, flash, realplayer and acrobat, with remote sound going through headphones. There are twelve terminals on a twin processor Athlon MP 2000Mhz server running RH9.
When the client user logs out, the home directory is wiped and re-created so all settings and files disappear. (Then the history and cache go).
We have a /clients directory that they can save information in they may need to use again.
It is possible that the client can mess the session up, but all we need to do is logout and login again.
(Quite an exciting moment the other day, new client sits down, looks at thin client. "Hmmm, pentium pro.. Yeuck... " 5 Mins later.. "Cor this pentium is really fast, I think I should use linux.." I'm not sure that Mark told him about thin clients and how they worked or not..)
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