Jim wrote:
> What is the best way to turn a Debian box into a kiosk?  

The way I have done it in the past is to skip running a window manager 
all together and just tell Xfree86 to run your app with the -geometry 
settings set to fill up the whole screen. Also set X to run in your 
inittab settings to respawn.  If you do it this way, if someone manages 
to close the app or it dies for some reason X will just restart and 
start your app again... and it's freaky fast when it's the only thing 
running.  You also get the feature that is built into init that will 
keep X from constantly trying to restart if there is an error.  The rest 
if gives you can save a reboot.

You can also try running a very basic image display program and tell it 
to always be on top.  Then you can just display images that mask off the 
parts of the program you don't want to be clickable.  It's not a perfect 
way to do it, but it can cut down on people messing around with parts of 
the app that you don't want them messing around with.
Of course you could also play around with making the config files read 
only, so even if someone did manage to get to the config, it wouldn't 
really do them any good.

Brian Cluff
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