Creating a very isolated desktop: disable Window operations menu

[Danny Smit]

Thanks for the suggestion.

With no DE you mean nothing at all? no panels, no desktop, no window
manager? Just plain X?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that will be a little to
much of nothing. Especially the window manager is useful for an
applications that uses subwindows I think. But also a desktop
environment conveniently helps with support with font scaling,
especially when needing to support both UHD and non-UHD, and has other
useful functions like configuring global shortcut keys, etc.

I agree that a full flash DE is probably not suitable in my case and a
lightweight DE would probably do the trick. To me XFCE seemed to be
straightforward and efficient and suitable for the job, but I'm open
for suggestions.

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Thanks,
Danny

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 12:48 PM, P. H. Madore <moonpunter at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you only want to run a single application, it may be worthwhile to just
> launch that application from a base terminal and not use a DE at all.
>
> phm
>
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 4:17 AM, Danny Smit <danny.smit.0 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm trying to configure an Xfce4 desktop running on CentOS 7, such
>> that the allowed actions of certain users are very limited. I only
>> want a single application (with subwindows) to be run, while limiting
>> access to other functionality of the system and desktop.
>>
>> I tried getting the kiosk mode to work by following these steps:
>> https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/kiosk_mode
>> but it doesn't seem to react to the kioskrc configuration file at all.
>> I'm probably not doing it right, allthough I thought I was following
>> those instructions to the letter.
>>
>> Therefore I resorted to turning of options trough the user
>> configuration in the user's home directory and was able to provide a
>> desktop with most of the options disabled. However one of the things I
>> wasn't able to disable yet is the "Window operations menu" that opens
>> when a user right-clicks on the titlebar.
>>
>> Therefore I'm looking for some answers to the following questions:
>>
>> 1. Could it be that kiosk mode doesn't work in the CentOS 7 context?
>> Or that the configuration at the wiki doesn't match anymore?
>> 2. Is it even possible to disable the "Window operations menu" through
>> configuration?
>> 3. Probably the answer to the previous question will be "no" I think.
>> What would it take to add disabling the "Window operations menu" as a
>> configuration option? (probably more of a developers question?)
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Danny Smit
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