Kano Desktop is a package that draws together many packages to provide an integrated desktop experience, built on Raspbian's LXDE. Most of the actual code resides in its dependencies; what is provided directly are configuration files and integration scripts.
Visit the project's wiki to get the full description.
This script is run by the LXDE autostart file and performs a number of functions:
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On first login:
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Runs kano-tutorial to introduce the user to their computer
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Runs kano-init-flow to and prompt them to make configuration choices via kano-settings
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Shows an introductory video
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Account setup using kano-init and kano-login
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On each login, sets up the desktop.
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Acts as a point at which other packages which need notification of login are called, eg kano-init and kano-updater
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Syncs state for apps integrated with Kano World via kano-sync
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Configures: screensaver, audio (alsa-utils), keyboard, mouse, and kano-vnc
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Starts lxpanel, kano-mount-trigger, kdesk, and kano-feedback-widget
This repo contains configuration files for
- LXDE
- lxpanel
- openbox
- chromium
- gtk file chooser
- libfm (automatically generated, should be changed via preferences dialog)
- pcmanfm (automatically generated, should be changed via preferences dialog)
- rxvt - see
man rxvt - lxterminal
- dconf (a binary file which is edited using gconftool-2)
Plus a default .bashrc
Kano supply a custom keyboard; support for which is in this repo.
- kano-uixinit detects the keyboard and starts xbindkeys, with one of two configurations to be found in
config/keyboard. - The script bin/kano-screenshot-hotkey is triggered from Ctrl-Alt-Equal on the KANO keyboard or Control-Print on normal keyboard. This causes a screenshot to be taken and placed in
~/Screenshots/ - Save, Load, Make and Share keys on the Kano keyboard trigger certain actions via kano-signal
- Volume up and down keys via kano-volume
- Support for switching to vertual terminals by presing Ctrl-1,Ctrl-2 on the Kano keyboard.
kdesk is configured here. Its icons can be found in the icons/, wallpapers in wallpapers/ and configuration in kdesk.
A particularly important script is kdesk/icon_hooks.sh. This allows dynamic configuration of the icons on the desktop. It is currently used to:
- Display information from the users profile via kano-profile and
- Display online/offline status and information about notifications on Kano World
- Trigger actions when the screensaver kicks in. (This is a convenient time to run kano-sync and kano-updater)
