[KLUG Members] Kiosk distro? maybe kiosk Mozilla?

[Robert G. Brown]

Tomorrow is awful short notice... a few more days might allow time for
research, etc.

I would install a stripped down version of whatever distro I am most familiar 
with (in my case RH, in yours, perhaps Debian) with only the tools and 
resources needed to run X and a rudimentary WM (I suggest taking a look at
qvwm for this purpose, http://www.qvwm.org. VERY "strippable").

With Mozilla, and qvwm, it may be possible to remove that pesky "close"
button, especially if you're compiling, or have the time/knowledge to look
into that. Barring that, I'd schedule a crn job every minute that checks 
if Mozilla is up, and starts one if it isn't.

I'd also disable control-alt-delete if it reboots in the distro you're using, 
and kill off any access to the commend line (perhaps set the login shell to
/bin/false).. logon the user via XDM.. I can't think of a way to stop a
conntol-alt-backspace to finish off the X serve, bur if someone does this, 
tell him about KLUG, or kick me out of the exhibit! :)

Yes, it's a series of cheap tricks and mirrors that will get you almost where
you might want to be. I'm betting there's something bettter, but if this is 
for tomrrow, you might not have time...
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