Just run it without a window manager?
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From: Rodney Phillips <rodney_w_phillips@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: slug@nks.net
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:36:34 -0800 (PST)
>KDE's default window manager, kwm, offers only 3
>choices for how to handle window placement: smart,
>random, or cascade (at least that's all that's in the
>GUI config tool, KDE Control Panel or whatever they
>call it). What I need is to tell KDE to let programs
>handle their own window placement (at least for
>certain programs that have their own placement
>instructions). We have done this in fvwm2 in the past
>by commenting out
>Style * NoPPosition
>in system.fvwm2rc, but fvwm2 has a lousy interface.
>We have done it in Gnome by choosing "Method of
>placing windows: none" for sawfish (Gnome's default
>window manager). But I never got Gnome to work
>without crashing on a multi-headed (i.e.,
>multi-monitor) system.
>So can anyone help make Gnome multi-headed, or make
>KDE allow programs to place themselves? I'm willing
>to try other window managers with KDE, if needed.
>
>This is for a kiosk-like application using X
>Window/Motif. In other words, while the software is
>running, users should not be able to get to the
>desktop or any other software on the machine, the
>app's windows take over whole screen and can't be
>minimized. When the software is not running, you want
>a nice interface to work with while doing other tasks.
>
>
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