Barebones xfce

[Raghavendra Prabhu]

That was pretty helpful.
How do i prevent right click on the desktop and create new folders and
settings. I want to disable it

I enabled XFCE to manage the desktop but the option was still available.

Should i also use the kiosk mode

Prabhu

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Alexander Toresson <
alexander.toresson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Auke Kok<auke at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> > Alexander Toresson wrote:
> >>
> >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:13 AM, Auke Kok<auke at foo-projects.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Thiago Varela wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:02:03 -0400 (EDT)
> >>>> Well, that's what I tried to implicitly state before: you don't need a
> >>>> window
> >>>> manager if you do not want any windows at all.
> >>>> But if you need any sort of popups or widgets, then you DO want
> windows,
> >>>> therefore needing some way to do the window management, aka a window
> >>>> manager.
> >>>
> >>> start xfwm4 (nothing else) and your application only. make sure that
> >>> popup
> >>> windows are raised to the foreground. should be all you need.
> >>>
> >>
> >> A problem with that setup may be that minimized windows just
> >> disappear. A solution might be to also run xfdesktop and use the
> >> setting to show minimized windows as icons.
> >
> > I think xfwm4 still allows you to alt-tab to them anyway....
> >
> > Auke
>
> Yes, of course. But it may not be straight-forward that you can bring
> back the window with alt-tab, if 'normal' users are supposed to use
> it.
> I had xfwm4 + xftaskbar4 + idesk running on a old box for my parents
> to use (while their computer was broken), and I remember finding a
> second firefox started, even tho the old one was just minimized :)
> I'm trying to say that if the computer is supposed to always be
> running one window in fullscreen, it might be an idea to have a setup
> that disables minimizing, if a minimized window will be invisible.
> Oh, and I had forgotten, xfwm4 can do that -- just remove the minimize
> button -- and disable any key shortcut.
>
> // Alexander
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