Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Erin Stadler wrote:
> The problem with the solution below is that you can still minimize the app
> and then you are stuck with a white screen with nothing left to do but
> restart it or re-flash it. Is there a way to let the desktop boot up but
> stop other applications from loading other than the browser, so essentially
> you keep the person from being to browse to anything other then the program
> you give them?

You need to:
- disable Desktop from starting and start only Browser
- and use the same policy for Browser as for Desktop so
  that it's restarted when user closes it (see desktop
  startup script)
- change Matchbox theme (xml file, documented in Matchbox site)
  so that window titlebar doesn't have minimize button


- Eero



> 2007/3/23, Simon Moore   >:
>> It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the
>> browser of course, can send any key to any
>> screen, but in this case you send F6 when the
>> browser is the front window to make it full screen.
>>
>> Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e.
>> removing window manager) so just the browser
>> starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the
>> above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)
>  
> A quick and dirty way would be to replace maemo-af-desktop with osso
> browser in maemo-af-desktop startup script
> (/etc/osso-af-init/maemo-af-desktop.sh).
>  
> A more proper way in my opinion would be to write a real init script
> for it, and just remove the unneeded programs from the af initscripts.

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Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Erin Stadler]

The problem with the solution below is that you can still minimize the app
and then you are stuck with a white screen with nothing left to do but
restart it or re-flash it. Is there a way to let the desktop boot up but
stop other applications from loading other than the browser, so essentially
you keep the person from being to browse to anything other then the program
you give them?
 
2007/3/23, Simon Moore https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers> >:
> It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the
> browser of course, can send any key to any
> screen, but in this case you send F6 when the
> browser is the front window to make it full screen.
> 
> Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e.
> removing window manager) so just the browser
> starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the
> above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)
 
A quick and dirty way would be to replace maemo-af-desktop with osso
browser in maemo-af-desktop startup script
(/etc/osso-af-init/maemo-af-desktop.sh).
 
A more proper way in my opinion would be to write a real init script
for it, and just remove the unneeded programs from the af initscripts.
 
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Simon Moore]

Just in case anyone else tries the below - your device might go into 
a reboot loop.

Presumably need to disable the watchdog thingy.

Regards
Simon

At 10:24 23/03/2007, Johan Bilien wrote:


On Fri, Mar 23, 2007, Simon Moore wrote:
> It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the
> browser of course, can send any key to any
> screen, but in this case you send F6 when the
> browser is the front window to make it full screen.
>
> Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e.
> removing window manager) so just the browser
> starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the
> above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)

You could use the browser as your "desktop" process.

Replace PROG=/usr/bin/maemo_af_desktop with
PROG=/usr/bin/browser in /etc/osso-af-init/maemo-af-desktop.sh.




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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Kalle Vahlman]

2007/3/23, Simon Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the
browser of course, can send any key to any
screen, but in this case you send F6 when the
browser is the front window to make it full screen.

Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e.
removing window manager) so just the browser
starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the
above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)


A quick and dirty way would be to replace maemo-af-desktop with osso
browser in maemo-af-desktop startup script
(/etc/osso-af-init/maemo-af-desktop.sh).

A more proper way in my opinion would be to write a real init script
for it, and just remove the unneeded programs from the af initscripts.

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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Johan Bilien]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007, Simon Moore wrote:
> It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the 
> browser of course, can send any key to any 
> screen, but in this case you send F6 when the 
> browser is the front window to make it full screen.
> 
> Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e. 
> removing window manager) so just the browser 
> starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the 
> above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)

You could use the browser as your "desktop" process.

Replace PROG=/usr/bin/maemo_af_desktop with
PROG=/usr/bin/browser in /etc/osso-af-init/maemo-af-desktop.sh.

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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Simon Moore]

It does work, I've tried it.  Not specific to the 
browser of course, can send any key to any 
screen, but in this case you send F6 when the 
browser is the front window to make it full screen.


Anyone got any tips on changing X windows (i.e. 
removing window manager) so just the browser 
starts up with no other Apps?  It would make the 
above work so much better as a kiosk. (nokia 770)


Regards
Simon

At 18:00 21/03/2007, Johan Bilien wrote:


On Tue, Mar 20, 2007, Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
>
> >There is really no way to maximize an application in general (and maemo
> >browser in particular) emulating the HW Key press?
> >
>
> Yes this brute force approach could work too. You could use uinput
> kernel driver (used with serial bluetooth keyboards) to feed proper
> F-key to the kernel input subsystem to emulate such key press. Could be
> quite easy but you need kernel module not present by default on the device.

Using the XTest extension should work, something like
XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, TRUE, CurrentTime);
XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, FALSE, CurrentTime);

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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Johan Bilien]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2007, Frantisek Dufka wrote:
> Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
> 
> >There is really no way to maximize an application in general (and maemo
> >browser in particular) emulating the HW Key press?
> >
> 
> Yes this brute force approach could work too. You could use uinput 
> kernel driver (used with serial bluetooth keyboards) to feed proper 
> F-key to the kernel input subsystem to emulate such key press. Could be 
> quite easy but you need kernel module not present by default on the device.

Using the XTest extension should work, something like
XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, TRUE, CurrentTime);
XTestFakeKeyEvent (display, keycode, FALSE, CurrentTime);

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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Antonio Gomes]

Hi,

These are not UI packages/sources. Browser eal (engine abstraction layer)
and maemo-browser-interface are respectively a layer for UI interoperability
between engines and an interfacing package for other apps to access/share
some browser stuff.

regards


https://garage.maemo.org/projects/browser/


I even managed to compile them once (didn't run though). I would think
that having own browser UI that launches fullscreen for your needs would be
good enough solution for a kiosk mode project.


>It is possible to compile a small App that sends the keyboard
>function key (F6 I think) to x windows that is equivalent to
>the hardware fullscreen button being pressed (someone pointed
>me in that direction a while ago on the list).  Far from the
>best solution but it can work.
>
>The downside is it is hard to be sure which application is in
>front (I believe there is a util that can tell an app to go to
>the front, but not exactly fool proof).  I am told it is
>possible to disable the hardware key but I am not quite sure
>how you would do this (change the key mappings file?).  If you
>can't do that they can take it out of fullscreen, they can
>also press the home button.
>
>The browser crashes an enormous amount (one person mentions it
>is linked to the number of additional windows you open, most
>others think it is memory related), so you need a way to
>detect it crashed and reopen it.  (I managed to do this in Rh9
>really easily, so if browser or x-windows crash it restarts,
>can't seem to crack it on the nokia).
>
>Sleep mode (and also power off when charger plugged in) don't
>tend cause a proper boot up (it is already up) so startup
>scripts to start the browser don't get fired.
>
>Ideally I'd want to uninstall all non useful applications
>(e.g. games, email etc). Has anyone written anything to do that?
>
>I have not found any way to cut everything back to just the
>desktop and the web browser (i.e.
>remove the window manager) if someone can provide more info on
>that then I can probably knock up a proper kiosk mode for the
>Nokia and release it back and then we could have a basic kiosk
>and everyone can chip in to fix the other issues.
>
>There are so many fab web apps for a kiosk tablet
>- e.g. Museum guide (so much better than the talk in your ear ones).
>
>Kind Regards
>Simon
>
>
>At 07:15 20/03/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>That's right. The fullscreen browser launching is not implemented but
>>it is planned in future (not too soon).
>>
>>Br,
>>
>>--jakub
>>
>> >There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i spent
>> >quite a bit of time trying various solutions and even tried
>> >implementing the "open embedded browser" via dbus, however these
>> >calls are deprecated.
>> >The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.
>> >
>> >Andrew
>> >
>> >Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
>> >> As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am
>> >trying to open
>> >> maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
>> >>
>> >> I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has
>> >> no command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.
>> >>
>> >> I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've
>> >> found some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says
>> >the only
>> >> methods available for remote calling are for opening a new window
>> >> or opening a url.
>> >> There is another collection of methods but they seem to
>be intended
>> >> for embedded browser windows within a main application window.
>> >> One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key
>> >> code to the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
>> >> Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in
>> >fullscreen?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance
>> >>
>> >> Tomàs Jiménez
>> >> oranginalab
>> >>
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RE: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Jakub.Pavelek]

AFAIK the sources for the browser UI (not the engine) are public:
https://garage.maemo.org/projects/browser/

I even managed to compile them once (didn't run though). I would think that 
having own browser UI that launches fullscreen for your needs would be good 
enough solution for a kiosk mode project.

Br,

--jakub

>It is possible to compile a small App that sends the keyboard 
>function key (F6 I think) to x windows that is equivalent to 
>the hardware fullscreen button being pressed (someone pointed 
>me in that direction a while ago on the list).  Far from the 
>best solution but it can work.
>
>The downside is it is hard to be sure which application is in 
>front (I believe there is a util that can tell an app to go to 
>the front, but not exactly fool proof).  I am told it is 
>possible to disable the hardware key but I am not quite sure 
>how you would do this (change the key mappings file?).  If you 
>can't do that they can take it out of fullscreen, they can 
>also press the home button.
>
>The browser crashes an enormous amount (one person mentions it 
>is linked to the number of additional windows you open, most 
>others think it is memory related), so you need a way to 
>detect it crashed and reopen it.  (I managed to do this in Rh9 
>really easily, so if browser or x-windows crash it restarts, 
>can't seem to crack it on the nokia).
>
>Sleep mode (and also power off when charger plugged in) don't 
>tend cause a proper boot up (it is already up) so startup 
>scripts to start the browser don't get fired.
>
>Ideally I'd want to uninstall all non useful applications 
>(e.g. games, email etc). Has anyone written anything to do that?
>
>I have not found any way to cut everything back to just the 
>desktop and the web browser (i.e. 
>remove the window manager) if someone can provide more info on 
>that then I can probably knock up a proper kiosk mode for the 
>Nokia and release it back and then we could have a basic kiosk 
>and everyone can chip in to fix the other issues.
>
>There are so many fab web apps for a kiosk tablet
>- e.g. Museum guide (so much better than the talk in your ear ones).
>
>Kind Regards
>Simon
>
>
>At 07:15 20/03/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>>That's right. The fullscreen browser launching is not implemented but 
>>it is planned in future (not too soon).
>>
>>Br,
>>
>>--jakub
>>
>> >There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i spent 
>> >quite a bit of time trying various solutions and even tried 
>> >implementing the "open embedded browser" via dbus, however these 
>> >calls are deprecated.
>> >The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.
>> >
>> >Andrew
>> >
>> >Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
>> >> As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am
>> >trying to open
>> >> maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
>> >>
>> >> I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has 
>> >> no command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.
>> >>
>> >> I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've 
>> >> found some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says
>> >the only
>> >> methods available for remote calling are for opening a new window 
>> >> or opening a url.
>> >> There is another collection of methods but they seem to 
>be intended 
>> >> for embedded browser windows within a main application window.
>> >> One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key 
>> >> code to the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
>> >> Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".
>> >>
>> >> Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in
>> >fullscreen?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Thanks in advance
>> >>
>> >> Tomàs Jiménez
>> >> oranginalab
>> >>
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RE: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Simon Moore]

It is possible to compile a small App that sends 
the keyboard function key (F6 I think) to x 
windows that is equivalent to the hardware 
fullscreen button being pressed (someone pointed 
me in that direction a while ago on the 
list).  Far from the best solution but it can work.


The downside is it is hard to be sure which 
application is in front (I believe there is a 
util that can tell an app to go to the front, but 
not exactly fool proof).  I am told it is 
possible to disable the hardware key but I am not 
quite sure how you would do this (change the key 
mappings file?).  If you can't do that they can 
take it out of fullscreen, they can also press the home button.


The browser crashes an enormous amount (one 
person mentions it is linked to the number of 
additional windows you open, most others think it 
is memory related), so you need a way to detect 
it crashed and reopen it.  (I managed to do this 
in Rh9 really easily, so if browser or x-windows 
crash it restarts, can't seem to crack it on the nokia).


Sleep mode (and also power off when charger 
plugged in) don't tend cause a proper boot up (it 
is already up) so startup scripts to start the browser don't get fired.


Ideally I'd want to uninstall all non useful 
applications (e.g. games, email etc). Has anyone written anything to do that?


I have not found any way to cut everything back 
to just the desktop and the web browser (i.e. 
remove the window manager) if someone can provide 
more info on that then I can probably knock up a 
proper kiosk mode for the Nokia and release it 
back and then we could have a basic kiosk and 
everyone can chip in to fix the other issues.


There are so many fab web apps for a kiosk tablet 
- e.g. Museum guide (so much better than the talk in your ear ones).


Kind Regards
Simon


At 07:15 20/03/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

That's right. The fullscreen browser launching 
is not implemented but it is planned in future (not too soon).


Br,

--jakub

>There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i
>spent quite a bit of time trying various solutions and even
>tried implementing the "open embedded browser" via dbus,
>however these calls are deprecated.
>The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.
>
>Andrew
>
>Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
>> As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am
>trying to open
>> maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
>>
>> I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has no
>> command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.
>>
>> I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've
>> found some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says
>the only
>> methods available for remote calling are for opening a new window or
>> opening a url.
>> There is another collection of methods but they seem to be intended
>> for embedded browser windows within a main application window.
>> One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key code
>> to the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
>> Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in
>fullscreen?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Tomàs Jiménez
>> oranginalab
>>
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Frantisek Dufka]

Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:


There is really no way to maximize an application in general (and maemo
browser in particular) emulating the HW Key press?



Yes this brute force approach could work too. You could use uinput 
kernel driver (used with serial bluetooth keyboards) to feed proper 
F-key to the kernel input subsystem to emulate such key press. Could be 
quite easy but you need kernel module not present by default on the device.


Maybe there is better way - using window manager to make the application 
full screen via something else than just keypress. Or write something 
that does this directly - set X window properties of browser window to 
be fullscreen.


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RE: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Tomàs Jiménez Lozano]

I assume that the browser does not supply any internal means (ie:
command line switch option, rpc method) to bring it to fullscreen mode.

What about trying to solve the problem form the outside?

There is really no way to maximize an application in general (and maemo
browser in particular) emulating the HW Key press?

Tomàs

On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 09:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That's right. The fullscreen browser launching is not implemented but it is 
> planned in future (not too soon).
> 
> Br,
> 
> --jakub
> 
> >There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i 
> >spent quite a bit of time trying various solutions and even 
> >tried implementing the "open embedded browser" via dbus, 
> >however these calls are deprecated. 
> >The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.
> >
> >Andrew
> >
> >Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
> >> As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am 
> >trying to open 
> >> maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
> >>
> >> I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has no 
> >> command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.
> >>
> >> I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've 
> >> found some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says 
> >the only 
> >> methods available for remote calling are for opening a new window or 
> >> opening a url.
> >> There is another collection of methods but they seem to be intended 
> >> for embedded browser windows within a main application window.
> >> One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key code 
> >> to the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
> >> Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".
> >>
> >> Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in 
> >fullscreen?
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance
> >>
> >> Tomàs Jiménez
> >> oranginalab
> >>
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RE: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Jakub.Pavelek]

That's right. The fullscreen browser launching is not implemented but it is 
planned in future (not too soon).

Br,

--jakub

>There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i 
>spent quite a bit of time trying various solutions and even 
>tried implementing the "open embedded browser" via dbus, 
>however these calls are deprecated. 
>The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.
>
>Andrew
>
>Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
>> As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am 
>trying to open 
>> maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
>>
>> I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has no 
>> command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.
>>
>> I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've 
>> found some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says 
>the only 
>> methods available for remote calling are for opening a new window or 
>> opening a url.
>> There is another collection of methods but they seem to be intended 
>> for embedded browser windows within a main application window.
>> One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key code 
>> to the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
>> Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in 
>fullscreen?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> Tomàs Jiménez
>> oranginalab
>>
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

David Weinehall wrote:

As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am trying to open
maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.

In this case you don't want to run Desktop.  With the Home key
user can always switch to Home or some other window.


Not if he modifies /etc/mce.ini first:

HomeKeyShortAction=disabled
HomeKeyLongAction=disabled

should do the trick =)


There's still the problem that even although the Browser would start
in fullscreen, user can always press the fullscreen key and exit
fullscreen mode.  This key is interpreted by the Browser itself.
Grabbing that key would be kludge way to do anything, it's better
not to run Desktop (with which one could switch to another app) and
in WM configuration disable minimize & close buttons etc.

Eventually Browser will take all memory and not be able to open any
new pages.  In this case it would be nice if user could close Browser
and it would be restarted automatically.  Same thing when it crashes...
Easiest way to do that would be to use the device SW watchdog for
starting Browser, similarly to the input method.  Maybe by replacing
Desktop in its startup script with Browser and changing the startup
policy to what is used for the input method.  (see the scripts in
/etc/osso-af-init/)


- Eero
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[David Weinehall]

On mån, 2007-03-19 at 18:08 +0200, ext Eero Tamminen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> ext Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:
> > As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am trying to open
> > maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.
> 
> In this case you don't want to run Desktop.  With the Home key
> user can always switch to Home or some other window.

Not if he modifies /etc/mce.ini first:

HomeKeyShortAction=disabled
HomeKeyLongAction=disabled

should do the trick =)

[snip]


Regards: David
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Eero Tamminen]

Hi,

ext Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:

As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am trying to open
maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.


In this case you don't want to run Desktop.  With the Home key
user can always switch to Home or some other window.

You might also want to modify the window manager settings
(see matchbox documentation for more information).


- Eero
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Re: Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[andrew gatt]

There is no way to open the opera browser into fullscreen, i spent quite 
a bit of time trying various solutions and even tried implementing the 
"open embedded browser" via dbus, however these calls are deprecated. 
The only hope is to use a different browser solution as a base.


Andrew

Tomàs Jiménez Lozano wrote:

As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am trying to open
maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.

I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has no
command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.

I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've found
some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says the only methods
available for remote calling are for opening a new window or opening a
url.
There is another collection of methods but they seem to be intended for
embedded browser windows within a main application window.
One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key code to
the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".

Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in fullscreen?


Thanks in advance

Tomàs Jiménez
oranginalab

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Launch maemo browser in fullscreen mode

[Tomàs Jiménez Lozano]

As a first step to achieve some kind of kiosk mode I am trying to open
maemo browser at startup in fullscreen mode.

I've found that, dislike desktop opera browser, maemo browser has no
command line switch option (--fullscreen) to do this.

I am trying now to launch browser via dbus rpc capabilities. I've found
some "osso-browser-interface.h" document where it says the only methods
available for remote calling are for opening a new window or opening a
url.
There is another collection of methods but they seem to be intended for
embedded browser windows within a main application window.
One of this "embedded-only" methods allows you to send a HW Key code to
the browser, that is just what I am trying to do.
Disgracefully I assume it only works for this "embedded browsers".

Does anyone know if there is a way to open maemo browser in fullscreen?


Thanks in advance

Tomàs Jiménez
oranginalab

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