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 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 > choices, the complaint about not being to install anything was there, > in long run it just worked. > > the startup file should let you call emc without the &, so the startup > file would sit there and not get processed any further. > Then when you close emc it processes the rest, so following emc in the > startup with a shutdown -h now should work. > All other things you would background with a & at the end of the line, > except for emc. (i did not have this startup requirement in the > computer lab) > > This has worked for me in the past. > IceWM has the benefit of not needing all of KDE, it's light weight too. > > Not running a window manager could be tricky if you manage to drag a > window behind another and can't get to it anymore. > while disabling things and still having access to open windows from > pop up or alt-tab seems beneficial. > > Eric gave a good idea there though, google for "IceWM Kiosk" on some > ideas in that "thinner" direction. > perhaps you can adapt the icewm/firefox kiosk example, it talks about > LTSP, which is what i ran in the computer lab, just never needed kiosk > mode. > > Hope this helps. > > > On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Eric H. Johnson > <ejohn...@camalytics.com> wrote: >> 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). >> >> Anyway, try searching on Kubuntu Kiosk mode or Kubuntu Kiosk admin (tool). >> >> Regards, >> Eric >> >> >> >> 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 >> computer with emc2 installed on it as a single purpose machine - >> industrial controller.) >> >> To re-cap, the important factors are: >> 0. user is forced to log on, upon which emc2 starts automatically >> 1. user cannot open any other programs (while emc2 is running) >> 2. he is logged out when emc2 exits (and computer shuts down) >> 3. ideally, some sort of graphical logon is used >> >> I'm considering using Debian or Ubuntu. I want to run emc2 in full screen, >> so I believe there should be no need for a window manager. >> >> I've been playing with starting linux in text mode and then starting emc2 >> with startx, but without success... >> >> I'm sure there is someone who has tried something like this before. >> I've looked through the docs and archives but without much luck. >> >> I would greatly appreciate being pointed in the right direction. >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
