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tyrone

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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,23:58

I am running dsl from a laptop in a club, I want to disable root access via the menu, and make the icons appear by default. And possibly get rid of the menu altogether, and just have icons.

System works great using a ibm thinkpad770x wireless

Tyrone

Cattrah
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Posted: April 01 2005,23:56

I, too would like to disable the menu via right click. It would be best if I could use some kind of key sequence + right click to make it pop up. I'm creating a kiosk for children to play games on and I do not want them to get into any menu stuff, only be able to access the icons on the desktop. Any help is greatly appreciated.

mikshaw

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Posted: April 02 2005,03:36

I can't think of any way to do this in fluxbox without recompiling the program.
Perhaps you could consider a different window manager. For example, evilwm is a root window only. You can still have your background image/color, but all applications are started through configurable hotkeys rather than a menu.
I'm not sure how well xtdesktop works with it though.

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Cattrah
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Posted: April 04 2005,19:17

hmm, I have limited time to complete this. I find that even if I have it point to a blank menu it still gives a menu with a terminal, and reboot options. Which is a bit annoying, but I guess may work okay for purposes of passing off my project. I'll look into those other options however, thanks!

clacker

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Posted: April 04 2005,20:31

Cattrah, have you tried editing the /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu file and removing the offending items? Then restart X windows to see your changes. Unless you removed that option from the menu. In that case type <crtl><alt><del> and then startx.

If you are remastering, remember to change /KNOPPIX/etc/skel/.fluxbox/menu or when you restart you won't see your changes. I'm assuming you are remastering or the little people restarting the computer would give them access to everything.

I liked your key idea of hiding things until you want them. .fluxbox/keys holds the key bindings. Again remastering requires you to change the /etc/skel/.fluxbox/keys file.

I think it might be possible to write a shell script like the folowing to load the old menu back when you type a certain key:

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
rm /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu
cp /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu.old /home/dsl/.fluxbox/menu
# something to restart fluxbox
# I don't know how to do that but someone else might
#.fluxbox/menu.old would need to be in the skel directory for remastering

One word of advice: children are like mice. You never know how they get into things, but they do! They aren't evil, but they're dirty, they make other things dirty, and they cause damage. Get rid of the xterm icon and ANYTHING that lets them do anything but play.

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