I need a very limited kde desktop to be the default for a certain user, to act as a browser for our web-based library catalogue. All that's wanted is one instance of Firefox (or konq, don't mind), with no other items needed. In the past I've had quite good luck with fvwm2, using some instructions a list user here (sorry, forgotten name) once sent me. Given the advent of kiosktool in KDE, however, I thought I'd have a go with it. Using 9.3 and kde 3.4 (latest on suse ftp), I began setting up the environment for the user, but can't get the kmenu items I want to delete (nearly all of them) to go away. That's to say kiosktool runs, I select the menu, delete the items, and it appears to have worked and to have been saved by pressing the appropriate button, but when I log in as the intended user the menu is still all there. The right profile is being seen, as other alterations are present. Anyone know anything about this? Cheers Fergus -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On 5/10/05, Fergus Wilde
Given the advent of kiosktool in KDE, however, I thought I'd have a go with it. Using 9.3 and kde 3.4 (latest on suse ftp), I began setting up the environment for the user, but can't get the kmenu items I want to delete (nearly all of them) to go away.
Oh boy, do I know this pain :)
That's to say kiosktool runs, I select the menu, delete the items, and it appears to have worked and to have been saved by pressing the appropriate button, but when I log in as the intended user the menu is still all there. The right profile is being seen, as other alterations are present.
KDE's menu system is a complete and total mess, I wanted to change the edutainment entry to education and it took me almost a full week of work to ensure it worked for every user on they system, in the end I dumped kiosktool in favour of using menueditor, and then pulling those configs out of the local kde dir and dumping it into each users /home after manually locking it down. Major changes to the menu systems are apparently due in V4, but for the moment you can only suffer :-) Alternatively XFCE4 provides a very lightweigh and easily configurable enviroment including a lockdown scheme. It might be worth looking there instead. Regards, Ben
On Tuesday 10 May 2005 12:00, Ben Higginbottom wrote:
On 5/10/05, Fergus Wilde
wrote: Given the advent of kiosktool in KDE, however, I thought I'd have a go with it. Using 9.3 and kde 3.4 (latest on suse ftp), I began setting up the environment for the user, but can't get the kmenu items I want to delete (nearly all of them) to go away.
Oh boy, do I know this pain :)
That's to say kiosktool runs, I select the menu, delete the items, and it appears to have worked and to have been saved by pressing the appropriate button, but when I log in as the intended user the menu is still all there. The right profile is being seen, as other alterations are present.
KDE's menu system is a complete and total mess, I wanted to change the edutainment entry to education and it took me almost a full week of work to ensure it worked for every user on they system, in the end I dumped kiosktool in favour of using menueditor, and then pulling those configs out of the local kde dir and dumping it into each users /home after manually locking it down.
Major changes to the menu systems are apparently due in V4, but for the moment you can only suffer :-)
Alternatively XFCE4 provides a very lightweigh and easily configurable enviroment including a lockdown scheme. It might be worth looking there instead.
Great, thanks Ben - probably will look elsewhere then, xfce or fvwm2 as before. Just thought I'd have a go with kiosktool first. KDE is overkill for this user anyway, I expect. Cheers Fergus
Regards,
Ben
-- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
On Tue, 10 May 2005 20:31, Fergus Wilde wrote:
Given the advent of kiosktool in KDE, however, I thought I'd have a go with it. Using 9.3 and kde 3.4 (latest on suse ftp), I began setting up the environment for the user, but can't get the kmenu items I want to delete (nearly all of them) to go away.
That's to say kiosktool runs, I select the menu, delete the items, and it appears to have worked and to have been saved by pressing the appropriate button, but when I log in as the intended user the menu is still all there. The right profile is being seen, as other alterations are present.
Anyone know anything about this?
I know nothing about using Kiosk but this article may be of some use. KDE Kiosk: Battening Down the Hatches http://enterprise.kde.org/articles/kiosk-lp.php -- Regards, Graham Smith
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