lock th desktop for users: enable kiosk mode in xfce4*SOLVED

kozaki · 2005-11-05 15:02:45

[In short]
How to activate kiosk mode in xfce4, so end-user won't break the wm/desktop configuration we configured for many to use it ?

[Detailed]
I've decided my association's mates to choose Arch as our desktop PCs OS (we do this to provide basic Internet / office / image manipulations capabilities to the ~50 young workers we voluntary work for).
PCs are PIII 800MHz with 256MB RAM & 7-10GB HD.

On top of easy to configure & fast Arch Linux, I opted for xfce4 wm for the same reasons

Now we configured grub bootscreen & xfce, with images made by our president (beeing a wonderfull graphist). Quite everybody find the beta PC fast, accurate, good looking and easy to use and so far enjoying the shift from previous win98 PentiumII PCs very much
A few screenshots : the desktop ; Firefox & Gaim ; Gimp & gQview

Now we couldn't solve 2 configuration's issues :

- How to activate kiosk mode in xfce4, so end-user won't break the wm/desktop configuration we configured for many to use it ?
Neither intensive reading of xfce4's doc nor googling for a couple of hours helped us activate it

- auto(un)mount users usb stick : tried autofs that could do the job if we find how to show icons on xfce4's desktop (didn't search hard yet) ; tried ivman but actually didn't work.

Do you have some tips to help us solve those 2 last issues ?

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link to the public new Arch Linux PC's thread (in French)

kozaki · 2005-11-27 19:35:19

Done

kioskrc is to be located in /opt/xfce4/etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc not into /etc/xdg/xfce4.

Here our kioskrc which locks effectively any changes to xfce4 panel & desktop.

As we customized them, I had to place our customized config files into /opt/xfce4/etc/xdg/xfce4/panel/ & ~/desktop/.

# /opt/xfce4/etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc

[xfce4-panel] 
CustomizePanel=%powerusers

[xfce4-session]
CustomizeSplash=%powerusers 
CustomizeChooser=ALL
CustomizeLogout=ALL
CustomizeCompatibility=%powerusers
Shutdown=%powerusers
CustomizeSecurity=NON

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#1 2005-11-05 15:02:45

lock th desktop for users: enable kiosk mode in xfce4*SOLVED

#2 2005-11-27 19:35:19

Re: lock th desktop for users: enable kiosk mode in xfce4*SOLVED

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