IIRC, a program 'devilspie' was mentioned on this list a few years back.
I've used devilspie to make the emc2-ubuntu-livecd installation work
almost like a kiosk. The desktop automatically logs in, and starts EMC
in full screen on workspace 1. This makes it so that I can switch to a
Hello All,
I'm trying to create a setup whereby when a user starts up the computer,
he is forced to log on after which emc2 is launched automatically
and when emc2 is closed this ends the session, logs the user off,
and shuts down the computer. (Essentially, I would like to run linux
Mark,
You might check into Kiosk mode which works with KDE (Kubuntu) at least
through version 8.04. I have not used it, but with a quick search it looks
like it may still only be available under KDE3, but not yet available under
KDE4, which may be an issue after the next LTS release (10.4).
You can lock a user out of everything pretty easy with IceWM and its
easy text files for menus.
Just make sure there is no shell the user can start and make sure
user can't login from the console either to edit the IceWM config.
I used to use it in a computer lab to give the users very limited
http://www.icewm.org/manual/icewm-10.html#ss10.2
Or just don't give them a Start Menu on the taskbar.
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 6:13 PM, Daniel Goller mor...@gmail.com wrote:
You can lock a user out of everything pretty easy with IceWM and its
easy text files for menus.
Just make sure there is
