Re: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On 02 Aug 2001 09:55:49 -0500, Jim Roland wrote:
> I've already tried to run Mozilla in a pure-X environment, however it has a
> bug where it refuses to accept any input from the keyboard.  This was a
> known bug, like the others, that Mozilla is either slow or incapable of
> solving.  It appears that Mozilla is requiring the window manager to provide
> it with input instead of X.  I also can't use X because I don't know the X
> resource name (and it's not the same as Netscape) to supply a "maximize
> window" geometry so I can force it full screen.  I would love to not be
> forced to use a titlebar, it will prevent someone from screwing with the
> session settings.
> 
> My other problem is that the damn browser (Mozilla again) refuses to run
> (maybe gnome itself) because it can't write to the home directory, which I
> would love to deny write priviledges to the guest account.  I'm using
> Mozilla mainly because it's newer and has a decent look & feel, but it's
> proving impossible to configure the way I want at the OS-level.  I've been
> able to kludge certain settings with javascript thus far.
> 
<snip>


The one demo I saw of Ellison's NIC ( http://www.thinknic.com/ ) used
Netscape 4.xx running full screen on X (afaict) to provide the entire
environment. Their CD images are available for download (gratis) from
the website. Perhaps you can poke around those to see what they've done?
(They might even be using Mozilla now, I don't know.)

Cheers,
Greg Merchan
(auspex on GimpNet)