On Jul 27, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
From: Alex Dean <[email protected]>
Getting software to display a series of images seems like
no problem. I find lots of options there. But I'd also like to
sometimes display a web page, so (for instance) I can see the weather
report from 7-8 am while I'm getting breakfast.
I think I can probably do this with xscreensaver hacks, but I haven't
come across anything specific yet. Anyone know of any tutorials for
displaying a web page as screensaver content? (Or some other way to
get a web page displayed full-screen, without any window chrome at
all.)
"firefox http://example.org/";, when the firefox process has started,
use
xmacroplay to simulate an F11 keypress for "kiosk mode". There's
probably a
better way. This is just what I thought of off the top of my head.
You could
also use wmctrl to hide the window and keep the process running,
which would
be better than stopping/restarting a heavyweight process if you want
web pages
displayed at various times. ISTR an xscreensaver module that
grabbed JPEGs
from random places on the Net and displayed them, but that's just
slightly
less complex than rendering HTML+CSS. If the pages you need to
display aren't
really complex, they might look OK in dillo or the GUI version of
links, but
you'd have to test that out first.
Those are exactly the kinds of ideas I was hoping for. Just some
places to start exploring. The fullscreen-firefox idea seems the most
promising, since I can easily create PHP/Ruby/bash/Python/whatever
scripts to make it do what I want. That seems preferable to learning
the config syntax for xscreensaver or other.
I will document how this all goes if/when it actually happens. Gotta
get the wife to sign off on the hardware purchase, but since it
involves showing her more pictures of the kids, the odds are better
than normal. :)
alex
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