On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 13:59, Todd Slater wrote: > I have a 3 1/2 year old daughter who likes to type in OpenOffice, play > with Tuxpaint and Stickers, and listen to some .wav's I captured from one > of her favorite cartoons. I created an account for her, but never found a > desktop/window manager I was happy with and that I was willing to turn > her loose in. > > I wanted something minimal but that would still support desktop icons. I > didn't want a panel. I wanted a very fast window manager and file manager. > And I wanted to make it as kidproof as possible. > > Aren't you just dying to know what I've got her using? > > I'm using ROX as her session manager and desktop. I run it using the > pinboard (for desktop icons) but not the panel. I put icons to her > favorite apps on the desktop. The file manager is obviously ROX--super > fast. And the window manager is Oroborus > (http://www.dreamind.de/oroborus.shtml)--very lightweight and easy to > configure. The main reason I chose Oroborus was because it doesn't have > any root menu, so clicking on the desktop does not bring up a menu of apps > and options that I'd have to edit out by hand. Instead, clicking on the > desktop gives a harmless ROX dialog. > > You can see a screenshot here: > http://clevername.homeip.net/gallery/screenshots/2002_11_26_21_06_50 . It > shows the icons and a ROX-Filer inside the Oroborus window manager. > > I can still do admin stuff if need be by opening her home directory in > ROX; from there I can launch xterm. I'm pretty confident that she will not > be able to mess anything up, but I'll let you know once we do some more > testing! > > Todd
Bravo! How well thought out mate! BTW, what are you going to do when she understands that CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE kills the desktop? Or when CTRL-ALT-F2 gives her a black screen? (grin) -- Wed Nov 27 21:55:00 EST 2002 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | k�hn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen k�hn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Gr�tens*Liebe Gr��e*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn multicasts on broken packets
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