Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Alexey Vyskubov
new window is opened by the web site being visited, and I would prefer the window to just take the entire screen or at least not require manual placement. Try to look at larswm. -- Alexey Python is executable pseudocode, Perl is executable line-noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Kent West
Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. Karsten M. Self wrote: - have galeon automatically restart if it exits How do I do this if

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Mar 25, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. Karsten M. Self wrote: - have

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread Kent West
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Mar 25, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Thanks for everyone's response. I think for now I'll stick with ICEWM, and just disable the Menu Bar, although this discussion gave me some food for thought, so I may change the setup in the future. Karsten M.

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002.03.25.1748 +0100]: How do I do this if I'm starting galeon from .xinitrc/.xsession? while true; do galeon; done -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^.*|tr * mailto:; [EMAIL PROTECTED] the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-20 Thread Danie Roux
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be my first choice. You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login screen, input moves to it. After you've logged in, you loose keyboard

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-20 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Mar 20, 2002, Danie Roux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:25:50PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: Galeon, in full screen tabbed mode, with *no* window manager, would be my first choice. You need a window manager for Galeon fullscreen. If you get to a login

Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Kent West
Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the Start menu, so it's unsuitable. I tried twm, but I have to

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread ktb
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Joseph Dane
Kent == Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kent Any suggestions? sawfish. it's small, doesn't have a start menu type thing, and I think will place windows for you. it does pop up a menu when a certain key is pressed (mouse-2??) on the root window, which could allow for the launching of new

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Mar-2002 Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the Start menu, so it's

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Mar 19, 2002, Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul F. Pearson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the Start menu, so it's

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has that menu at the bottom with the

FW: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Panuganty, Ramesh
, 2002 11:42 AM | To: debian-user | Subject: Which window-manager for a kiosk? | | | Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc | windows, but without the ability to start other programs, | etc. I want a | kiosk style setup, on a low-memory machine. ICEWM has

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:22:02 -0600 ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 11:41:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Which window manager will give me the ability to size/move/close/etc windows, but without the ability to start other programs, etc. I want a kiosk style setup, on a

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Pete Harlan
You can launch your startup app from /etc/inittab. I used to work for a company that installed kiosks, and this is how we did it. We ran our own app, not a browser, and our X needs were very minimal. No window manager, no windows except our one, no keyboard, no mouse (touchscreen only), etc.

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Paul 'Baloo' Johnson
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Karsten Heymann wrote: - use no window manager - start galeon in fullscreen mode from .xinitrc or .xsession - map away the F11-Key with xmodmap - maybe disable C-A-F[1-12] - maybe disable C-A-Backspace - disable most mime stuff to prevent the start of external