Desktop Lockdown

Aaron Gaudio prothonotar at tarnation.dyndns.org
Wed May 26 04:22:52 UTC 2004


Behold, Scott Sloan <devscott at charter.net> hath decreed:
> Given:
> 
> 2 virutal desktops named: Junk and Internet
> 
> How can I?
> 
> What I want to do is, let's say Aunt Tilde switches to desktop
> "Internet" and has mozilla opened, is there anyway within gnome that I
> can lock the desktop so she can use only mozilla on that desktop. If she
> launches any programs from the applications menu, they will appear on
> "Junk" (However if mozilla spawns a popup, it should be directed to
> "Internet" and not "Junk")
> -- 
> Scott Sloan <devscott at charter.net>
> 
> 

This doesn't really answer your question, but have you considered
offering a second kiosk-like X session rather than using virtual desktops
for this?

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