March 2005
Beginner to intermediate
342 pages
15h 55m
English
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Chapter 5, KDE Desktop
#44 Run KDE on the Bleeding Edge
HACK
The Kiosk framework has been used in large enterprise deployments of
KDE. Administrators report that it cuts the time taken up by user support by
half, because it reduces the number of small but time-consuming problems
users have. If you are considering using Kiosk in a public setting you might
want to make yourself familiar with the KDE configuration file format.
Browse through /etc/kde-profile to see the settings made by the Kiosk Admin
Tool. Adding
[$i] to a configuration option, group of options, or file makes
them unchangeable by users.
Kiosk is not a substitute for using Unix filesystem permissions or other secu-
rity settings. You should also make sure you set X to not be killable with
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace, and prevent users from changing to a text console.
Finally, make sure the login manager does not allow users to log in to any
other desktop environment that has not been locked down.
—Jonathan Riddell
HACK
#44
Run KDE on the Bleeding Edge Hack #44
Explore the underground world of KDE by compiling development code.
Of all the free and open source projects, KDE is possibly the fastest-growing,
as evidenced by the large and active community of developers, features that
go from the drawing board to computer in record time, and the constant
stream of additions being committed to the KDE source code. The rapid
pace of development means ...
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