disable gnome desktop controls
 

Hi,

Is it possible to disable any gnome desktop controls?

By this I mean that if any clicks are made on the desktop or any keys are pressed, nothing should happen

Please help

Unplug your keyboard and mouse, perhaps?

What reason do you have to want something like that anyway? Care to give us a few details about what you are trying to accomplish?

I'm trying to run an application and enforce the user to use that application only
I mean that he should not be able to press, run or click anything on the gnome desktop outside that application

I hope this makes sense

Please help

Well, that makes more sense. What you're talking about is setting up a kiosk-mode desktop.

If the application you're talking about is firefox, there's tons of info out there about kiosking it. I don't know about other applications, but google did give me this hit that looks promising.

http://users.telenet.be/mydotcom/how...k/ubuntu01.htm

And much more from google:

http://www.google.com/search?q=gnome+kiosk+application

If you could be more specific about your needs and your setup, it would be easier to give advice. Vague questions usually result in only vague answers.

I wasn't sure what to search for on google but now I know

Thanks for the info

If you only want one application to run and ever need to use the GNOME desktop, you don't even need a desktop environment! A plain window manager, or possibly even no window manager might work better.