Re: [fvwm] FVWM: FVWM as kiosk

From: stu <swl_at_ucs.co.za>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:00:42 +0200

On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:36:37 -0500 (EST)
keith_at_keithtyler.com wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Tad Marko wrote:
>
> > Howdy,
> >
> > I'm wanting to give some users access to one program when they log
> > in. When they quit the program, they are logged out. I'd like to use
> > fvwm,
>
> It sounds like what you really want is to just set that one program as
> the window manager for that environment. Does the program really need
> to have window handling support?

You could start the program up without any window manager, using xinit.
For example :

xinit ./quake2 +set game action -- /usr/bin/X11/X :1

(You don't even need to start X to do this)

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Received on Wed Oct 29 2003 - 12:58:56 GMT