Re: Gnome/Mozilla for an Internet Cafe



Gregory Merchan wrote:
> 
> 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>
> 

I have a piece of info on using Galeon as a full-screen (gecko based) browser
for an info-appliance.  Also I have succesfully used netscape as full-screen
info-appliance.  The Galeon stuff is at:

	<http://www.uytun.com/galeon/>

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