[KLUG Members] gnome users in a one app prison

[Bruce Smith]

> I would like to know how to put a user into a one or two application
> prison in gnome.  I'd like to control these users desktops to have no
> gnome-panel and only an icon or two to execute from the desktop.  Is
> this possible?  They will be getting a desktop through ltsp.  

Does it have to be Gnome?  I think it'd be easier to do with something
like fvwm.

> I will be
> on the same machine and would prefer to not be in the jail.

Does the terminal have a xdm/gdm/kdm/... login screen?
If so, you can force your users to one window manager (fvwm?)
and allow yourself to select other WM's.

Or you can have your own ~/.fvwmrc config file, different than your
users, giving you more applications you can run.

Or you can not give them a windows manager at all, which really 
limits them!  (what I do on data collection terminals)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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