Barebones xfce

[Raghavendra Prabhu]

That is pretty helpful. I will try to assess my application requirements and
do it accordingly
Prabhu

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Thiago Varela <thiagodrv at archlinux.com.br>wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Thiago Varela
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