Startup Script for Firefox

[Alfred Vahau]

Ewan Mac Mahon wrote:

>On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 08:02:13AM +1000, Alfred Vahau wrote:
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>>This list has  brought to my attention some of the lightweight window
>>managers such as ice, fv and flux. I've visited their respective sites
>>and in the long term will want to try one of these out. For now I've
>>decidedd to stick with genome and trim down as much as possible.
>>Locking down firefox was easy. I've specified the URL in firefox so it
>>automatically loads. And I've removed the location bar also so a user
>>won't be tempted to try out anything else.
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>Just a (lateral) thought - do you actually need a window manager at all?
>If all you want to run is full screen Firefox and the user doesn't need
>to be able to move/size/minimise etc the window then you can just start
>Firefox from the login script and when/if they kill it they're logged
>out.
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>Ewan
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Precisely my case. User doesn't get to see the desktop at all.
There are still processes that need to be disabled as they are loaded
by default. Otherwise good enough for now.

Alfred,

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