That can easily be done with ratpoison, a very light-weight window
manager that I recommend.
--- Chuck Hast <kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Below sounds like what I want to do. I would like to set up
> a "internet appliance" I would like to run Opera so I can use
> it in Kiosk mode (full screen no bars or other things to confound
> my wife with) Initially I want to set it so that she hits a button
> on the screen and it sends here to the bank pages that handle
> the bank accounts. So what I want to do is set up machine that
> all she will see is the browser on the screen, and it will have
> nothing beyond the buttons I put on there and of course those
> that the bank supplies. Opera will allow you to do this, but I
> would like to set something up such that all she will see is the
> browser screen. Any ideas on this one?
>
>
>
> On Wednesday 07 November 2001 18:12 L, you wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 06:50:05PM -0800, Justin Keyes wrote:
> > > excuse my newbieness, but how would I run programs in straight X?
> >
> > I think this has been answered, but I should explain that it isn't
> > really something you want to do. Russ's solution would provide you
> with
> > an xterm, from which you could launch anything you want, _if_ you
> knew
> > the full path to the program. The problem with running just X is
> that
> > there are no extra workspaces, no menus, no nothing. You _can_ do
> it
> > that way, but you probably wouldn't ever want to.
> >
> > Paul
>
> --
> Chuck Hast
> KP4DJT
> kp4djt@tampabay.rr.com
> To paraphrase my flight instructor;
> "the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my
> going out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of
> torn and twisted metal."
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