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    Re: Customize guest session

    Quote Originally Posted by thefinn93 View Post
    I'm trying to figure out how to allow logging into a Guest session without logging in as anyone else first. ie. GDM would present you with the choice of Guest or Admin, or maybe just automatically log Guest in. Any ideas?
    That's beyond the scope of gdm-guest-session and this tutorial. I have seen attempts to modify gdm-guest-session to do what you ask for, but unfortunately I don't remember where...

    In any case you can of course create a passwordless user "guest".

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    Re: Customize guest session

    The solution might be to create a user that auto-logs in and then add something to the startup scripts that launches a guest session. Not sure if you could set up a user to auto-login while also setting a password on that user. If you could, the guest user would be unable to exit to the parent session. I have a "guest" computer and I like the idea of someone being able to launch a guest session from boot time, without a user password, but as Gunnar said, I think that might be beyond the scope of gdm-guest-session.
    Love & joy - Callum

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    Smile Re: Customize guest session

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by thefinn93 View Post
    I'm trying to figure out how to allow logging into a Guest session without logging in as anyone else first. ie. GDM would present you with the choice of Guest or Admin, or maybe just automatically log Guest in. Any ideas?
    That's beyond the scope of gdm-guest-session and this tutorial.
    Ubuntu 11.10 brought good news in this respect. It's shipped with a new default display manager, LightDM, which allows you to launch a guest session directly from the login screen.

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    Re: Customize guest session

    That it did. Maybe I'll look into this again

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    Re: Customize guest session

    Quote Originally Posted by Gunnar Hjalmarsson View Post
    Ubuntu 11.10 brought good news in this respect. It's shipped with a new default display manager, LightDM, which allows you to launch a guest session directly from the login screen.
    Awesome, that's the single best reason I've heard to upgrade. Thanks for posting back here, I greatly appreciate it.
    Love & joy - Callum

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    Re: Customize guest session

    Having problems installing.
    When I run
    Code:
    sudo ./install.sh
    in a terminal it says
    ./install.sh: 37: msgfmt: not found
    I don't know what that means? Am I doing something wrong?

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    Re: Customize guest session

    Hi zorkerz!

    Quote Originally Posted by zorkerz View Post
    Having problems installing.
    When I run
    Code:
    sudo ./install.sh
    in a terminal it says
    ./install.sh: 37: msgfmt: not found
    I don't know what that means? Am I doing something wrong?
    No, not at all. It means that the msgfmt program, which is currently needed to run the install.sh script, is not installed on your computer.

    Please run
    Code:
     sudo apt-get install gettext
    Then you'll hopefully be able to run install.sh without further interruptions.

    Sorry about that. Think I'd better modify the tarball a bit.

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    Re: Customize guest session

    Hi, how can I customize wine in guest session? Is there a way to copy .wine folder into guest home directory permanently?

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    Re: Customize guest session

    Quote Originally Posted by toni93 View Post
    Is there a way to copy .wine folder into guest home directory permanently?
    Yes, I think there is. I would suggest that you use /etc/guest-session/skel as described in the section Alternative approach in the first post of this thread. If you try it, please let us know if you were successful.

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    Re: Customize guest session

    thanks for a great tutorial!

    however i have some issues with some apps.

    hope you can help me.

    amsn shows an enoying info popup at first run
    chrome prompts user to choose search engine at first run
    skype shows a license agreement at first run that the user needs accept.

    Any idea on how to solv this?

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