howto boot with a single gui app as the desktop ?

[David Timms]

Tim wrote:
> David Timms:
>>>> - if the viewer is exited, then vnc viewer should restart, waiting for a 
>>>> machine to connect to.
>>>> - has a way to exit the viewer.
> 
> Tim:
>>> The above two seem mutually exclusive.  I imagine some sort of process
>>> watchdog could check for a terminated VNC process and restart it.
>>> Though you'd have to be careful of looping around restarting a crashed
>>> process with faults.
> 
> David Timms:
>> I found the user can make two mistakes:
>> - tells the remote vnc desktop to logout - leaving the vnc-session 
>> alive, but showing only a back ground image. From my tests, this 
>> requires a vncserver -kill :1 and vncserver :1 to allow it to work 
>> again. {and a local machine logoff (ctrl-alt-backspace) to allow 
>> autologin/sessions startup to reconnect to the vncserver}
>> - if the user activates the vnc viewer popup {F8}, Exit viewer can be 
>> selected. This disconnects the viewer session. A {ctrl-alt-backspace} 
>> gets the user connected to the vnc server again.
>>
>> In |sessions|current sessions| there is an option to set a program style 
>> as restart. This didn't seem to work for vncviewer. 
> 
> A simplistic solution might be to add a whacking great big "RESTART"
> icon on the desktop, which either has the commands to start up VNC
> again, or does a logout and relies on the auto-relogin process.
> 
> That gives users some fall back option if they get lost.
Good point, which fits with the keep it simple philosphy! And I could 
rename the launcher, and change the icon to anything; the user need not 
know what the icon is really doing ;)

Thanks again, DaveT.