Is it possible to start only one app in GUI GNOME or KDE or other?

[Edilmar Alves - Lista]

Bill (William) Triest escreveu:
> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:54, Edilmar Alves - Lista wrote:
> 
>>I have a Fedora Core 2 Linux + VNC Server (running into xinetd).
>>Then, the users may connect remotely to this server and run an app
>>that I put into desktop (shortcut). But the users have access to other
>>apps like OpenOffice and Mozilla, and I want:
>>
>>1) the user may logon and the app starts automatically. Where do I do this?
>>2) none taskbar, console, etc, the app must start using full-screen,
>>with no way to change to other apps like Alt+Tab shortcut. Is it possible?
>>3) the GUI must be light, I'd like to use some GUI with lower resources
>>than GNOME and KDE. What's the better for this case?
>>4) the users may be in slow links, I think to use in the future
>>softwares like FreeNX, and the GUI must be really with low graphical
>>complexities...
>>
>>Thanks for any suggestions...
> 
> 
> Have you looked into running just the app, with no Desktop Environment. 
> (To test locally, try  editing ~.xinitrc and then commenting out what's
> there and just putting something like emacs).  They could still start
> other application from a command line and have them display, but it
> would make it more difficult and non-obvious.
> 
> If this is what you want I can help you figure out how to do this for
> vnc (I've done something simular, but I would have to play to get
> everything correct in my message).
> 
> Thanks,
> Bill
> 

Hi Bill,

If possible, I'd like to start only one app full-screen, and no way for 
the user to start others. Thing some kind of application like "bank 
terminals", where the user has no chance to do something different from 
access the bank application...