Re: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe

["Jim Roland" <jroland roland net>]

I've already tried to run Mozilla in a pure-X environment, however it has a
bug where it refuses to accept any input from the keyboard.  This was a
known bug, like the others, that Mozilla is either slow or incapable of
solving.  It appears that Mozilla is requiring the window manager to provide
it with input instead of X.  I also can't use X because I don't know the X
resource name (and it's not the same as Netscape) to supply a "maximize
window" geometry so I can force it full screen.  I would love to not be
forced to use a titlebar, it will prevent someone from screwing with the
session settings.

My other problem is that the damn browser (Mozilla again) refuses to run
(maybe gnome itself) because it can't write to the home directory, which I
would love to deny write priviledges to the guest account.  I'm using
Mozilla mainly because it's newer and has a decent look & feel, but it's
proving impossible to configure the way I want at the OS-level.  I've been
able to kludge certain settings with javascript thus far.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Blad, John Erling" <john erling blad aftenposten no>
To: "'Charles Iliya Krempeaux'" <aliensoldier home com>; "Jim Roland"
<jroland roland net>
Cc: <gnome-gui-list gnome org>; <usability gnome org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 3:12 AM
Subject: RE: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe


> This is in fact very interesting because it points to the
> future. What we will see is a number of configurations
> like this.
>
> Today it is best to strip off GNOME and running pure X to
> do this but at some point you can't do this because the apps
> assumes GNOME functionality.
>
> John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Charles Iliya Krempeaux [mailto:aliensoldier home com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 5:59 AM
> > To: Jim Roland
> > Cc: gnome-gui-list gnome org
> > Subject: Re: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > You should ask this over at the gnome-list gnome org
> >
> > This mailing list is for discussions about Usability,
> > HCI, etc relating to GNOME.
> >
> >
> > See ya
> >
> >      Charles Iliya Krempeaux
> >
> >
> >
> > On 31 Jul 2001 20:32:22 -0500, Jim Roland wrote:
> > > I'm trying to use Mozilla 0.9.2 for an internet cafe client
> > of mine.  I've
> > > convinced them to go from Win2000 to Linux, but Win2000 was
> > under a policy
> > > configuration such that the only app available was Internet
> > Explorer 5.x and
> > > additional browser windows were disallowed.  Certain URLs
> > were also disabled
> > > and local drive access was disabled.
> > >
> > > It's running under a customized RedHat Linux 7.1 (Linux
> > Terminal Server
> > > Project) and I need Mozilla to do the following but can't
> > seem to find a way
> > > to make it work.  I'm running gnome/sawfish/nautilus for a
> > window manager
> > > with only Mozilla the running app (no taskbar, etc).  I
> > need to make the
> > > following happen:
> > >
> > > 1) Menubar disappear (preferably) or at least be able to
> > turn off certain
> > > items like configuration settings, etc.  Need to keep users
> > from using
> > > "File" "Edit", etc.
> > > 2) Mozilla only in browser mode (no news, no mail, none of the other
> > > "applications").
> > > 3) Need to make Mozilla maxmize on each run.  Apparently
> > the -height -width
> > > and -splash options don't work on the command line.
> > > 4) I need to restrict certain URLs from being typed (eg, file:///,
> > > telnet://, news://, etc.  only allow http:// and https://)
> > > 5) I need to disallow additional windows from popping up
> > (prevent users from
> > > getting a "new browser window").
> > > 6) Prevent users from exiting Mozilla (I can restrict
> > minimizing by not
> > > runing the window manager).
> > >
> > > ------------------
> > >
> > > How can I make this happen?  How much of this can I do in Gnome?
> > > I would prefer to completely lock down the "guest" home
> > directory but found
> > > that ~ (home dir itself) and gnome directories (.gnome,
> > .gconf, etc) must me
> > > left writable by the guest account, otherwise gnome won't
> > come up at all.
> > > How can I make them all completely read only?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Jim
> > > (Please reply to the group and to my email address, thanks)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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