[ale] Locking a user in gdm

[James P. Kinney III]

You can still do that with ~/.xinitrc. You will need to craft a .xinitrc
that calls no window manager, runs only netscape and dies back to a
login screen if netscape is closed. There is a flag that will stop
netscape from being minimized. I don't remember it, though.

You will need to modify the master xinitrc for the system to allow the
~/.xinitrc to request no window manager. The defaults now will call twm
as a last resort.

On Mon, 2001-12-10 at 18:22, Chris Fowler wrote:
> In the old days of XDM you could force user settings by creating a
> ~/.xinitrc.  How can I have 1 user that runs Gnome desktop and another that
> just runs Netscape full screen with no window manager.  I do not want the
> one running netscape to be able to log in and get a Gnome desktop.  In the
> chooser one can select their window manager.
> 
> Chris
> 
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