Creating a very isolated desktop: disable Window operations menu

[houghi]

On 2017-08-16 14:15, Danny Smit wrote:
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> 
> With no DE you mean nothing at all? no panels, no desktop, no window
> manager? Just plain X?

X as server, but instead of starting xfce4, you start Firefox or Opera. 
They both have settings for Kiosk mode. Look in the man-pages for both. 
I prefer Firefox, because it is easier to use add-ins that block ads and 
what not.

> 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.

No need for that. X does that just fine. And see that the pop-ups open a 
new tab and disable pop-under.

> 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.

Set it and you are good. All shortcuts for a browser can be configured 
within the browser.
Other things do not need shortcuts, as all you want is one program to be 
running.
Not sure what UHD means.

> 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.

Use only that one program and configure it. As it can be done on a user 
level, you can still log in with XFCE.
You could even see to it that no login is needed and clean up the home 
directory of that user 'guest' every night or when the user logs out (or 
in) and delete everything else.

HTH, HAND,

houghi