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Date:      Tue, 11 May 2010 22:30:08 +0300
From:      Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>
To:        Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: user friendliest gui
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimUaRYden1ZpNG63vD2i5RahpSCtmPQ2306SilM@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201005111907.o4BJ7A2M007162@mail.r-bonomi.com>
References:  <201005111907.o4BJ7A2M007162@mail.r-bonomi.com>

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Why??  Because, In this case, the GUI is entirely -un-necessary-.  The user

> doesn't have to do anything other than stick the flash drive in the USB
> port.
>

> My users here,  "no gui" = "machine is broken"

makes it very necessary.

Anyway if you want a really simple GUI try icewm or dwm. The former recently
had a thread on its mailing list about how to lock it down for use as a
kiosk and the latter has < 5000 lines of code so it should be easy to modify
to your liking if you know some C.

Also look at devd(8) for running your script - The devd daemon provides a
way to have userland programs run when certain kernel events happen.



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