hello! sorry for the late comment but my goal is almost exactly the same as yours, i managed to get the pi to boot into rdesktop in around 50 seconds but if they log out it brings them back to the linux desktop, is there anyway to lock it in place? i also experimented with arch linux but found out y...

I've managed to get it starting right about it starts and can post how if your still having trouble!

what I'm looking for now is a way to lock it, as in users cannot log out and get into the Linux desktop without some form of authentication.