Covering up an Ubuntu Desktop

I'm hoping someone can point me开发者_开发问答 in the right direction.

I'm trying to modify an ubuntu 10.10 distro by hiding the entire desktop so that after the user boots it up all they see is a solid colour. The reason for this is that I am currently writing a glade application manager which will be the user's only interface with the OS and will sit on top of this background. I think I'm looking for a method to create a kiosk distro. I have looked and found no real good tutorials. I've not really messed with linux much in the past so if anyone any pointers/ideas it would be a real help.

Cheers in advance

Chris

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It seems that you're not really ready for such a huge project...

Anyways, Ubuntu comes afaik with KDE or GNOME desktop environment. So if you don't need it, then don't launch it. Just start X11 with a solid background color. It really doesn't make sense to fire up KDE or GNOME and hide everything but a solid background color.

That's like "I want to have a seat and buy a jumbo jet and remove everything but one single seat".