Thanks Andy, I hope somebody will try soon and report as well.
Jacques ----- Original Message ----- From: "A. Zeneski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 5:46 PM Subject: Re: problem with POS modal window in Linux. I fought with this "bug" for a long time, and was hoping that Java 1.5 on Linux would solve the problem. Then again, it may be a window manager issue; as I think when I switched to a very light window manager (can't for the life of me remember which one) for the POS terminals I was able to avoid the problem. Alt-Tab was never disabled in the main window, I used to just configure a special user login which had access to no applications (due to the fact it was a mini-window manager) and ran the POS application on login; logged out when the terminal was closed. Disabling alt-tab in this case was not necessary. Again, I really think this is a window manager issue. Maybe try different managers and see if you have different results? Andrew On Dec 28, 2006, at 4:16 AM, Daniel P wrote: > David, > > I can understand than the POS screen is a modal window by design > in order to avoid employees accessing other applications. However, > note that the BIG issue here is that in Linux, POS Alert messages > boxes are displayed behind the main screen, so you cannot close > them, and so the application is blocked (this only happens to me in > Linux, not windows, it doesn't seem a design issue.). > > Let's hope Jacques, Andy or others can give me a clue with this ;) > > Daniel > > > David E Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > I'm pretty sure this is a feature rather than a bug... ;) > > In most POS environments you don't want employees exiting the > application and fooling around with the system. > > Of course, it's probably not hard to turn off that option, perhaps > even in one of the XUI files. Hopefully Jacques or Andy or someone > with more POS experience can chime in on that particular. > > -David > > > On Dec 28, 2006, at 1:21 AM, Daniel P wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am experiencing a big issue using OFBiz Point-Of-Sale application >> over Linux (Debian Etch) with Java JDK 1.5.0.x >> >> The problem is that the POS main screen behaves like a modal >> blocking window in Linux. Once the main screen is displayed, you >> cannot switch to another window of the system with Alt+Tab. What is >> worst, when the application tries to display an "Alert >> message" (like for example "Product Not Found" when you press SKU) >> the alert is actually presented behind the main screen, instead of >> on top of it. So, you cannot accept the message and you can neither >> do anything with the main screen: the application is blocked. Then >> I have to log in with a different TTY and kill the java process. >> >> This behaviour is not reproduced over Windows XP with the same Java >> JDK: you can swith to other application with Alt+Tab and alert >> messages are properly displayed in top. >> >> I just wanted to ask if anyone has tried POS over Linux and >> experienced such a problem. I'm a newbie to OFBiz and maybe I am >> doing something wrong. Otherwise, this is a big issue that has to >> be put in Jira. BTW, should I put the issue in Jira myself or is it >> restricted to developers ? >> >> Please advice, >> >> Daniel. >> >> >> >> ______________________________________________ >> LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. >> Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. >> http://es.voice.yahoo.com > > > > > --------------------------------- > > LLama Gratis a cualquier PC del Mundo. > Llamadas a fijos y móviles desde 1 céntimo por minuto. > http://es.voice.yahoo.com
