DSL, mouse cursor and full screen browsing
Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: DSL, mouse cursor and full screen browsing
started by: TL_CLD
Posted by TL_CLD on Sep. 11 2007,12:16
Hey all,I have some rather special needs. I need to build 20 small computers that boots from CD, starts a browser in fullscreen mode (real fullscreen, meaning no menus or anything - like Opera), jumps to a predefined URL and refreshes this URL once each minute.
Also, if possible, I would like to disable the mouse cursor. Finally the browser must support images, CSS and preferably XML/XSLT. The last item on that list more or less limits my choices to Firefox or Opera, as far as I know.
The computers wont have keyboard, mouse or harddisk. I plan on using VIA Epia motherboards.
Is this something that can be done with DSL?
Hope someone can help..
Thomas
Posted by curaga on Sep. 11 2007,14:04
Yes, I think it's possible. I'm not sure how to make it refresh once a minute though, but I'm sure the other things can be done.
Posted by TL_CLD on Sep. 11 2007,15:31
| Quote (curaga @ Sep. 11 2007,10:04) |
| Yes, I think it's possible. I'm not sure how to make it refresh once a minute though, but I'm sure the other things can be done. |
I believe Opera can be setup to refresh a given URL each minute, so this particular issue have already been solved.
This leaves me with the mouse cursor thing. Any ideas?
Thomas
Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Sep. 11 2007,16:13
Some possible solutions from web search:- a program named "unclutter"
- using a blank/invisible cursor (i.e. using xsetroot -cursor)
Posted by TL_CLD on Sep. 11 2007,19:08
| Quote (^thehatsrule^ @ Sep. 11 2007,12:13) |
| Some possible solutions from web search: - a program named "unclutter" - using a blank/invisible cursor (i.e. using xsetroot -cursor) |
Unclutter did the trick!
Now all I need is grab DSL and see if I can make all the pieces fit together.
Thanks a bunch guys..
Thomas
Posted by Divago on Sep. 12 2007,10:09
Hii'm not a dsl guru but iu know u can do some tricks
if u search a little in the forum, u'll find a lot of my post... boring post, so search'em only if u are really tired
btw, u can remove some of the item from desktop, right button menu etc
u can remove something from firefox, and also u can create a scritp that launch firefox again whenever is closed (u can twink a little the script to close and reboot it in a few minutes)
hope this could help, i don't remember how i did it, i just remember i did it
Edit
darn i searched into the forum but i've not found any post i did about twinking dsl ff... sorry
