On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:56:24PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > No need to run a wm at all. I'm not sure how to set it up for all users, > but for any one user, just set the ~/.xinitrc to have the single line in > it "mozilla-firefox".
I thought of that, too, as I posted, but what if a popup window opens? With no WM it'll have no controls, making it hard to close and impossible to move. Also, if someone exits they'll find themselves sitting at the shell prompt (or display manager prompt) and not know what to do. BTW, to the original poster: have you considered the new Dillo versus FireFox? The new version (0.8) isn't backported to Woody yet, but it should be straightforward to do and dillo is lighter and faster than any Mozilla derivative (though FireFox is plenty fast). Have you thought about the problem of cookies? If you allow them, they're going to carry over from person to person. Perhaps you could add a line to Xsession that deletes the cookie file and then uses touch to create a new one? And have the box auto-reboot every hour or two, or whenever the user exits the browser? (The rebooting would also help if someone downloads and sets up a keyboard logger, particularly if you boot the box off a non-writable medium like CD, which I highly recommend for a kiosk application.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
