Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.25.1748 +0100]: > How do I do this if I'm starting galeon from .xinitrc/.xsession? while true; do galeon; done -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Kent West
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Mar 25, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. Karsten M.

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 25, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, > and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some > food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. > > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > -

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Kent West
Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. Karsten M. Self wrote: > - have galeon automatically restart if it exits How do I do this if I'

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
> new window is opened by the web site being visited, and I would prefer > the window to just take the entire screen or at least not require manual > placement. Try to look at larswm. -- Alexey "Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 20, 2002, Danie Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be > > my first choice. > > You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-20 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be > my first choice. You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login screen, input moves to it. After you've logged in, you loose keyboard

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: > - use no window manager > - start galeon in fullscreen mode from .xinitrc or .xsession > - map away the F11-Key with xmodmap > - maybe disable C-A-F[1-12] > - maybe disable C-A-Backspace > - disable most mime stuff to prevent the start of externa

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Pete Harlan
You can launch your startup app from /etc/inittab. I used to work for a company that installed kiosks, and this is how we did it. We ran our own app, not a browser, and our X needs were very minimal. No window manager, no windows except our one, no keyboard, no mouse (touchscreen only), etc. Ju

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:22:02 -0600 ktb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > > kiosk style setu

FW: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
esday, March 19, 2002 11:42 AM | To: debian-user | Subject: Which window-manager for a kiosk? | | | Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc | windows, but without the ability to start other programs, | etc. I want a | kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine.

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. > ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsui

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
> "Kent" == Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Kent> Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a "start menu" type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed ("mouse-2"??) on the root window, which could allow for the laun

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc > windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a > kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the > bottom with the "

Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the "Start" menu, so it's unsuitable. I tried twm, but I have to manual