KDE XWindows displayed according to user profile
Dear my friends..... I am developing a database application for the sales of our company. I want they can login from any computer and get the display as their user profile. I want each sales can not see any menu (everything is hidden) and only the netscape browser link which I put on their desktop. So they can only see two icon : netscape and logout menu on their desktop. Is it possible to be implemented on KDE or any XWindows else ? In MS Windows 2000 Server it is very easy because I can find a directory which contents the link that I should removed to define whether a part of the GUI can be seen by its user after they have logged in. I tried to find the way how to do that on www.kde.org but I didn't find it. Please give me some hints how to implement this. Thank you very much in advance. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus � Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
Op donderdag 21 november 2002 21:42, schreef Prabu Subroto:
I am developing a database application for the sales of our company. I want they can login from any computer and get the display as their user profile. I want each sales can not see any menu (everything is hidden) and only the netscape browser link which I put on their desktop. So they can only see two icon : netscape and logout menu on their desktop. Is it possible to be implemented on KDE or any XWindows else
KDE has a kiosk mode. I think that you're looking for that. This is probably better implemented in 3.1 that 3.0. Just wait a couple of days before 3.1 comes out... -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Thursday 21 November 2002 21.42, Prabu Subroto wrote:
In MS Windows 2000 Server it is very easy because I can find a directory which contents the link that I should removed to define whether a part of the GUI can be seen by its user after they have logged in.
In the user profile's home directory there's a directory called Desktop, which contains files that determine what should be seen on the desktop. In the user profile's .kde/share directory there's a directory called applnk, which determines what should be seen in the menu, there's also a global directory called /opt/kde3/share/applnk which holds the menu entries for all users. Finally, in the user profile's .kde/share/config directory is a file kickerrc which determines what is seen on the panel. The requirement "can log in on any computer" can be solved in a number of ways. Two that spring to mind are to mount the user profile's home directory from an nfs share, or to have a remote desktop over XDMCP. There are surely other ways too. Anders
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Anders Johansson
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Prabu Subroto
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Richard Bos