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Re: [LUG] Its starting to ge thru to people at last...

 

On Wed, 09 Apr 2008 21:35:14 +0100, Simon Waters wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>>
>> I thought the comments on being able to lock down KDE were interesting,
>> is it not possible in Gnome?  (can't say I've extensively looked into
> it).
> 
> Redhat has some guidelines on GNOME lockdown for kiosk, additionally
> there is a run app in fullscreen toggle which you could use with their
> guidelines.
> 
> I've never seen one of these I couldn't bail out to a command prompt
> pretty easily (but hey perhaps they weren't aiming to stop folks like
me).
> 
> For Kiosk mode KDE and GNOME are probably overkill anyway.
> 
> I'd ask Kai what to do if I was doing kiosk style apps, no point knowing
> these folks and not asking :)

+ Remove Linux's SAK (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key)
+ Run the application under X on its own - no window manager or anything.
= Kiosk mode?

Grant.


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