Barebones xfce

[Thiago Varela]

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 16:02:03 -0400 (EDT)
"Arthur H. Johnson II" <arthur.johnson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> 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.

Well, that's what I tried to implicitly state before: you don't need a window
manager if you do not want any windows at all.
But if you need any sort of popups or widgets, then you DO want windows,
therefore needing some way to do the window management, aka a window manager.

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Thiago Varela