idiot-proofing

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 02:27 -0500, Drewcore wrote:
> > Disabling right click would have to be done at the xorg (windows)
> > level, and would disable a lot of functionality in programs.
> 
> i want to do this because it's a 3 year old that clicks with both
> fingers and has a tendency to open menus when he just wants to draw
> another line in tuxpaint
> 
> 
> > As for the logout icon, that's a good one.  I'm not sure if just
> > making a launcher to run 'logout' is good enough... but it's worth a
> > shot. I'd like to see other tips on this...
> 
> i don't believe that ubuntu has the logout command available on a
> default install. i tried running it both from a launcher and from
> xterm, and (on xterm) got an error about command not found, etc. it's
> not a critical issue for me, but it would be nice to not have to run
> into the next room to get rid of a menu that the child activated by
> right clicking... oh well.
> 
> drew
> 
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> 

I might be missing something obvious here... but what about supplying a
one-button usb mouse ? You can plug your own mouse back in any time...

Peter