Does anyone know how to disable the right-menu without deleting the menu file from the .fluxbox dirctory? If possible I'd like to keep it available via a hotkey.
At the end of the day I am looking to leave one or two icons on the desktop for workstation users but do not want to give them too many options or access to the system ;-)
Regards, StewartI don't think this is possible without rebuilding fluxbox, and possibly modifying the source code. I might be wrong, but I don't recall ever seeing anything about this.Opps, I think I misunderstood your question.... Anyway, I was suggesting commenting out the [exec] lines in the menu ( with a '#') wherever you don't want access.
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At the end of the day I am looking to leave one or two icons on the desktop for workstation users but do not want to give them too many options or access to the system ;-)
Removing the menu is only a cosmetic fix. The user can still easily kick the desktop out of the way and access the system through the terminal. Unless you do something similar to what /.bash_profile does to keep user dsl logged in (the "while" loop), there is no forcing the user to stay in the desktop. Personally I dislike loops like this, paticularly when you start nesting them, but there's not much else that can be easily done if your plan is to limit the users' freedoms.
You might consider a search (both here and at goggle.com/linux) for "kiosk" desktop systems. That sounds like it more closely resembles what you want.Hi guys,
It's funny how just talking about an issue gets ideas working in the subconscious ;-) I like the idea of commenting out the exec components a lot, but I'm also leaning towards backing up the menu file and putting a blank in it's place. A simple hotkey to recopy the original back in place would make it available if needed (although I suspect it would mean restarting the window manager).
Since this is going to be on a livecd a simple reboot would revert the machine to limited access for users...