Ever publish a kiosk app like firefox or a terminal for troubleshooting?
Hate that you don't have windowing manager due to pop-unders or modal
mozilla messages?
Did you know you can just start metacity and not have to resort to using
something like the locked down JDS app?
Just start metacity before what ever your kiosk app calls and then kill
it after.
Once you do the above, you might find cases where a minimized app seems
to have disappeared. It hasn't but on some clients (like iPad) it's a
bit tricky to do an alt-tab. Best to just remove the minimize button
all together from the running instance of metacity.
Example of both tips together:
#!/bin/sh
# Get rid of the minimize button on the windowing manager
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
--type string \
--set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout menu:maximize,close
# Start a window manager so firefox doesn't get stuck with modal windows
under the browser
/usr/bin/metacity &
# Start Firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox
# Cleanup the window manager so Kiosk exits after firefox closes
pkill -9 $USER metacity
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