From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 6 01:54:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8823216A4BF for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:54:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailout10.sul.t-online.com (mailout10.sul.t-online.com [194.25.134.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 983D54400D for ; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 01:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hhasenbe@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de) Received: from fwd06.aul.t-online.de by mailout10.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 19vXsA-0007Yl-01; Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:52:42 +0200 Received: from techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (SrQLpoZToe4UC09sNev0shtJDfAM2jjZl8uHs0kP4bprEOhkDRPc8a@[217.82.85.197]) by fmrl06.sul.t-online.com with esmtp id 19vXry-0H8Wye0; Sat, 6 Sep 2003 09:52:30 +0200 Message-ID: <3F599245.4070902@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de> Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 09:52:37 +0200 From: Hendrik Hasenbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Hartzell References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Seen: false X-ID: SrQLpoZToe4UC09sNev0shtJDfAM2jjZl8uHs0kP4bprEOhkDRPc8a@t-dialin.net cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 08:54:35 -0000 Matt Hartzell wrote: > I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible > internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like to > run from this type of setup. > > Does anyone have any experience using a setup like this? Can any one > point me toward relevant documents? If you only need to show a website and no other programs should be displayed in parallel you might want to try a combination of ratpoison+browser of your choice. Depending on your browser you can even omit ratpoison and just start the browser as the xsession (should have tabbed browsing then). In effect you get a fullscreen browser with your app as homepage. More browser windows can be openend and switched between them with free configurable shortcuts (i recommend alt+tab). If the browser is closed you end the xsession and depending on configuration a new session might open or show a loginscreen. Hendrik