Is the bug purely on RH9? If not, which common distro's aren't affected? Fedora? (assuming they might have fixed it when it branched) or Debian perhaps?
Cheers, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike MacCana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Paul Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 5:52 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Anyone have any experience with Kiosks? > On Mon, 28 Jun 2004, Paul Robinson wrote: > > > Hi Sluggers, > > > > Trying to lock down a RH9 box so that it automatically logs in as a kiosk user and then starts up a FireFox browser window only (no window manager). I've achieved this to an extent - The only thing that doesn't work is the keyboard. I can move the mouse and click on links but I cannot type anything into the browser. > > > > Is anyone aware of anything screwy with the way X handles the keyboard if there's no window manager. My memory of the days before gnome and kde were pretty standard was that the keyboard would still work. > > Yes. This is a known bug - I contratc for Red hat and ack when the RHCE > involved a multi choice test (using a web browser as the sole app), this > bug made itself apparent. > > Killing X then re-logging in will provide a work around. But check > bugzilla to see if there's a fix. > > Mike > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
