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I want to set up a Kiosk session that only runs Mixxx in order to decrease vulnerabilities of my data and system at a party I'm hosting. I'm thinking of creating another user (call it DJ), so when I log in into DJ, the only thing available is Mixxx. I know that a guest user is an option but any user still has full control of that session.

I've seen many posts about this in askUbuntu but either they are specifically related to a web-browser kiosk or too advanced for me (the closest one would be this, but it mentions a .desktop file and a shell script without discussing it).

I'm using Xubuntu 14.04.02.

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From this question here, the steps are:

  1. Go to /usr/share/xsessions/ as root (you can do this by going into the terminal and type pkexec nautilus and navigate to your directory)
  2. Create a textfile there called Mixxx.desktop or whatever the name is .desktop
  3. Write in
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=mixxx
Name=Mixxx
Comment=Testing
  1. Restart your computer and enjoy :D

If you need to move windows around, you can use Openbox as a window manager. If you do so, you will be able to log out and move windows around. In order to do so, simply replace mixxx with /usr/bin/openbox-session; mixxx. I recommend you to do so, because it's much more stable than no Desktop Environment.

And If you use Openbox and amazed by the empty screen, right click brings the menu to basic items in Openbox. Install obmenu to customize the menu easily.

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