Ubuntu in my Office

[Peter Clark]

On Wednesday 16 November 2005 12:18, Aaron Kiley wrote:
> Also, as a side note, I only want to have a basic user account install, and
> once logged in the first thing that loads is a webpage and the user will
> not have any other access except to the one page in firefox. Is that
> possible.
    I'm not exactly clear as to what you want to do: do you want to set up the 
computer so that it *only* runs Firefox *and* displays this one page, or do 
you want users to perform other tasks, but when they use Firefox, they are 
restricted to one page? If the latter, then the easiest way is to deny the 
computer internet access. Firefox will still be able to display web pages, 
but as long as it isn't able to connect to outside sites, then it really 
doesn't matter, now does it?
    If the first, then you should check out KDE's "kiosk mode," which lets you 
lock down KDE to whatever degree you like. I don't know if GNOME has 
something like that--at least, I've never heard of anything like it. 
Alternately, if all you're doing is running Firefox, then skip a desktop 
environment altogether and just load Firefox in X. You don't even need a 
window manager if Firefox is started full-screen. Just be sure that there's 
someway to restart Firefox if it crashes.
    :Peter