Hi, On 2/8/07, chombee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? >
Does "Party Mode" do what you want? The idea was to support this kind of semi-kiosk role. Jon _______________________________________________ rhythmbox-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/rhythmbox-devel
