I folks, love rhythmbox, especially some of the recent work. Use it every day.
A friend and I are trying to figure out how to get rhythmbox 0.9.6-0 (the Ubuntu Edgy package [1]) to startup in fullscreen mode. In 0.9.3.1-0 (the Ubuntu Dapper package [2]) there was a GConf key (apps/rhythmbox/ui/fullscreen) that we set to achieve this. In edgy, this key seems to have disappeared. We are building a custom Ubuntu+Rhythmbox music kiosk on a laptop. It's for a cafe/arts collective [3], they want to have a listening-post for visitors to preview the collective's non-proprietary music. We installed Ubuntu Dapper, locked GNOME down completely by editing gconf keys, set the user to autologin and rhythmbox to startup in fullscreen mode on login. If rhythmbox crashes the user sees nothing but a desktop background and a rhythmbox icon, and can do nothing except launch rhythmbox. It was perfect. As simple as using an iPod, which was our goal. The only problem was that 0.9.3 did not support local album art, which we needed to display the art for our music. So we upgraded to edgy, but now this gconf key for fullscreen startup is gone. In Ubuntu Feisty it is not there either. We've got everything we need working, bar the fullscreen startup. We're that close to replacing a potential iPod with a recycled laptop running free software. Can anyone help? Can we just copy the key over from a dapper box? (we are going to try this but are doubtful) Is there some other way to hack rb to startup in fullscreen? Would this question be better asked on another GNOME list? Thanks in advance P.S. One more thing. We edited an XML file to get rid of the Music Edit View etc. menus at the top, which we don't want users to touch. We haven't figured out how to get rid of Playqueue, Library, Radio and Podcasts on the left-hand side while still displaying album art. Any hints? We just want to display the local music library, nothing else is of use to this project and is just a distraction for the users. [1]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/gnome/rhythmbox [2]: http://packages.ubuntu.com/dapper/gnome/rhythmbox [3]: http://theforest.org.uk/ _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
