[KLUG Members] Kiosk distro? maybe kiosk Mozilla?

[Adam Williams]

>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.

All so much work.  GDM has a auto-login feature, so you never actually see 
GDM.  Then you just run the browser.  If they close the browser they are 
back to GDM, only they never see GDM, it auto logs in and starts the 
browser.... 

>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

Whack all the tty line in inittab.

>/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! :)

Sure, disable Zap in you X config file, standard option.  Always do it on 
LTSP clients.

>
>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...