[ale] "kiosk" style mode for opensuse

[James Taylor]

Based on the small number of  devices, and the low requirements for lockdown, I decided to go with a minimal profile that autostarts remmina full screen.
Thanks for the suggestions.
-jt 
 

James Taylor
678-697-9420
james.taylor at eastcobbgroup.com



>>> Boris Borisov via Ale <ale at ale.org> 1/2/2020 10:20 AM >>> 
Go with LTSP.org

On Monday, December 30, 2019, Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 16:29:57 -0500
> James Taylor via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> > I need to repurpose some older PCs as thin clients to connect to a
> > win termserver. All I need is to have a generic autologin that only
> > displays preconfigured remmina sessions. I'm hoping for something
> > quick & easy. I would prefer not to go with a different distribution
> > for support reasons. Everthing else on site is SLES or openSUSE Leap.
> > Any thoughts? -jt
>
> If you don't need GUI, you could take UMENU2
> (http://www.troubleshooters.com/projects/umenu2/) and set it as the
> user's shell. Then the user's choices are limited to what's on the
> menu, as long as none of the menu choices run something from which the
> user can obtain a terminal or another menu.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> December 2019 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>


-- 
Sent from Gmail Mobile