Barebones xfce

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Thiago Varela wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:13:48 -0700
> Morten Juhl-Johansen Zölde-Fejér <morten at technographer.net> wrote:
>
>> 
>> On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 00:14:42 -0400, Raghavendra Prabhu <rrprabhu at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Dear Xfce users,
>> > 
>> > I want to run a single standalone application in XFCE in a full screen
>> mode
>> > When XFCE loads up, everything other than the application needs to be
>> > disabled. I am currently using XFCE 4.4
>> > 
>> > What would be the configuration i should use to enable this?
>> > 
>> > Prabhu
>> 
>> Forgive me for answering your question with a question, but wouldn't it be
>> more sensible to run somethin lighter in your situation? If you are going
>> for something close to a kiosk mode, wouldn't something like Openbox be
>> more practical since it uses considerably less resources?
>> 
>> Yours,
>> Morten
>
> Or even better, why not make Xorg load directly this application? After all,
> why use a window manager when you do not want any windows at all?

I actually tried that once, it didn't work out as well as it sounds. 
There needs to be some sort of window management, otherwise widgets and 
popups won't work correct.