Re: How X works / lightest Window Manager

2009-09-29 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Lucas, > defining secure: I will show the Window Manager with an GUI on it, this GUI > will open the Firefox. Just it. I must avoid users to accessing shell, > quitting X and everything else. The minimun resolution is 800x600. Perhaps you can get away without a window manager at all? Not really

Re: Mapping combo to key and key to combo

2009-08-27 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi, > This would mean I would have to set mapping per each application, > undoable. I need something more low-level, system-wide, to "fool" any > app that I am really pressing the assigned keys. Perhaps this should be achieved by an application that catches key presses, eats them and insert synt

Re: Mapping combo to key and key to combo

2009-08-27 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi, > generally speaking, that's (in the context of X) a feature of the > applications that you're using. For instance, xterm supports this using > the X Toolkit's translations resource. (Some other widely-used > applications offer no support for what you're asking - ymmv). Hah, that's useful

Re: Switching between virtual desktops

2009-06-02 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi Luca, > A: Im no expert either (far from that, actually), but I think the > good/expensive hardware wont be necessary.. I mean, if I choose to have like > 10 virtual desktops and hold down Ctrl+Alt+Right Arrow Key, the VD's change > so fast until the last one that I can barely notice anything..

What does #ffff## in xauth do (apart from breaking my X forwarding...)

2009-05-20 Thread Matthijs Kooijman
Hi all, I've been struggling with getting my X forwarding over SSH working. After some time, I found that there were two entries in my .Xauthority file that have ### as a hostname, which break forwarding. The relevant entries in my .Xauthority files were: ###: MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 #f