Towards a simpler desktop environment: What is the current state of the art?

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Tue, 27 May 2008, Gavin McCullagh wrote:

> > How can I get _complete_ control over the user environment?

> A slightly contrary alternative answer (I don't know much about sabayon
> etc.) is that you could give them a very limited desktop like fvwm95.
> 
> 	http://fvwm95.sourceforge.net/
> 
> It's not that pretty, but it's a familiar format and it doesn't offer much
> customisation.  Actually, that's not true it offers lots, but you mostly
> need to do it by modifying rc files and students are unlikely to figure
> that out. 

You could even set the RC file and make it read-only so as to stop them
editing it.

Oh, and I should say, it has a very low cpu/memory footprint which will
allow you more students and better performance per server.

Gavin