Off the top of your head, do you know if you can get metacity to maximize firefox after it's launched? I've been using fvwm2 to do what you describe below, but no matter how much I hack the fvwm2 config file, firefox doesn't seem to respond well to that WM's way of doing things. I *think* I was able to get some apps to auto-maximize in fvwm2 but it's been months since I last tried it.
Thanks, Matt -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Craig Bender Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:07 AM To: SunRay-Users mailing list Subject: [SunRay-Users] Kiosk App Tip 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 _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
