remaster, change windowmanager?

[brad]

I have set up a Suse9.0 box and made it a "kiosk" (web browser only) box.
I found it pretty simple in suse. The change I made was to edit the .xinitrc
file in the user home directory. Suse by default uses this to start the
windowmanager with a command and variable called:
exec $WINDOWMANAGER

i commented out this line and added:
while [ 1 ];
do
/usr/bin/firefox
done
failsafe="/usr/bin/firefox"

So in my knoppix 3.4 remaster I want to do the same thing.
Where do i disable where/how kde loads so I can add my /usr/bin/firefox line?
Thanks

[brad]

How about this question. Where, in the knoppix OS is KDE loaded?
How can I change that in a remaster? I have yet to find this setting.

Thanks
Brad B

[mzilikazi]

/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession

I have edited that file so many times that i wrote a script to put it in an editor with the simple command of 45edit.

The vast majority of it is for KDE and alot of workarounds for many KDE *cough* features. Here's my 45xsession for XFCE4 & ROX desktop and note that it has not even one single line from the original file in it:

xfce-mcs-manager
xfwm4 --daemon

# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
# (as it seems to be the new standard)
if test -d "$HOME/Desktop/Autostart"; then
  for i in `ls -1 -L ${HOME}/Desktop/Autostart/ 2>/dev/null`; do
    if test -x $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i; then
      $HOME/Desktop/Autostart/$i &
    fi
  done
fi

xftaskbar4&
rox -p desktop&
xfcalendar&
panel=`which xfce4-panel`
case "x$panel" in
        x|xno*)
                ;;
        *)
                $panel
                ret=$?
                while test $ret -ne 0; do
                        xmessage -center -file - -timeout 20 -title Error <<EOF
A crash occured in the panel
Please report this to the [email protected] list
Meanwhile the panel will be restarted
EOF
                        cat >&2 <<EOF
A crash occured in the panel
Please report this to the [email protected] list
Meanwhile the panel will be restarted
EOF
                        $panel
                        ret=$?
                done
                ;;
esac

xsetroot -bg white -fg red  -solid black -cursor_name watch

Now.....if you want a choice of desktops then you have to do a littel more work but it's all right there in 45xsession.

[brad]

Awesome! That's exactly what I needed. I'm on the right track now.
With any luck in the next few days i'll have a remastered knoppix version
that boots straight to a locked down firefox web browser!

Thanks a LOT mzilikazi!!!!!!!!!!!


Brad B

[syboor]

If you just want to change the default window manager, but not the details of how this window manager is called, you can look for the following lines in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig:

case "$DESKTOP" in kde|wmaker|gnome|xfce|icewm|twm) ;; *) DESKTOP="kde"; ;; esac

(I reconstructed from my own changed file, so it might be slightly different on the original.)
This checks if the user has specified a value for desktop at the boot prompt. If this value is one of the option in the list kde,wmaker,gnome etc, it will keep that value. Otherwise, it will use kde. If you change 'kde' (in DESKTOP="kde"), you change the default window manager. You can also delete options that you deinstalled (or want to disable at the boot prompt for some reason).

[Scarletdown]

[quote="syboor"]If you just want to change the default window manager, but not the details of how this window manager is called, you can look for the following lines in /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig:

case "$DESKTOP" in kde|wmaker|gnome|xfce|icewm|twm) ;; *) DESKTOP="kde"; ;; esac

Just out of curiosity, would changing DESKTOP="kde" to DESKTOP="bash" give me an X-enabled shell without actually loading a window manager?

[Ghandalfar]

don't set ff as wm. You won't be able to move windows without a proper wm.

[Albert]

If you only want to run firefox, then fluxbox could be a good alternative for a window manager. Its small and you will be able to move windows that firefox creates (like the download window).

[lters]

Making a kisok style boot cd, are they are tips for making the fonts attractive?