Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc
> windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a
> kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the
> bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsuitable. I tried twm, but I
> have to manually place the default app (Galeon) when it starts or when a
> new window is opened by the web site being visited, and I would prefer
> the window to just take the entire screen or at least not require manual
> placement.
>
> Any suggestions?
I suggest (all untested):
- use no window manager
- start galeon in fullscreen mode from .xinitrc or .xsession
- map away the F11-Key with xmodmap
- maybe disable C-A-F[1-12]
- maybe disable C-A-Backspace
- disable most mime stuff to prevent the start of external viewers
- have galeon automatically restart if it exits
That should keep the system quite closed. As I didn't test that,
suggestions are welcome!
Greets,
Karsten
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Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@gmx.de> <karsten@ecology.uni-kiel.de>
CAU-University Kiel, Germany
Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org)
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