From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 11 19:30:29 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D6E1065670 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 19:30:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337B48FC16 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 19:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so956578vws.13 for ; Tue, 11 May 2010 12:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.61.12 with SMTP id r12mr4831797vch.19.1273606228167; Tue, 11 May 2010 12:30:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.122.31 with HTTP; Tue, 11 May 2010 12:30:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201005111907.o4BJ7A2M007162@mail.r-bonomi.com> References: <201005111907.o4BJ7A2M007162@mail.r-bonomi.com> From: Eitan Adler Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 22:30:08 +0300 Message-ID: To: Robert Bonomi Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: user friendliest gui X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 19:30:29 -0000 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.