Bug 107800

Summary: KDM In Kiosk mode - disable Menu and set default session
Product: [Unmaintained] kdm Reporter: russell
Component: generalAssignee: kdm bugs tracker <kdm-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description russell 2005-06-20 19:05:46 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

When using kdm as the login manager for a kiosk environment it would be very useful to be able (in kdmrc) to disable the "Menu" button and have kdm just fire up the default session (startkde obviously!).

Speaking of default sessions.... kdm 3.2 upwards doesn't seem to have a default session setting for first time users. Could we have that too please?
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2005-06-20 21:41:30 UTC 
the menu button disappears when everything from the menu is gone. you can remove all session types but one and disable the remaining actions in the menu. see the manual for details. ;)

the default session for new users should be default (surprise surprise :), which should result in kde for kde installations from upstream source. doesn't it work?
Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2005-07-09 19:22:57 UTC 
ok, in a thread on kde-kiosk we established that the menu cannot go away (any more), as the "switch user" item just won't go away.
now the (unanswered) question was, whether we want to
- add an explicit option to disable user switching
- auto-hide the item when only one session is running (no other x displays, no tty logins)
- keep things as is
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-04-16 20:26:27 UTC 
KDM is unmaintained and not used in KDE Plasma 5.

SDDM is the login manager used in KDE Plasma 5. If you still have this same issue with SDDM, please file an issue on the SDDM bugtracker (after doing a search for existing issues first!): https://github.com/sddm/sddm/issues/