Hi all, I am not an expert linux user and I have problems in obtaining a kiosk style Fedora9 desktop.
I want just to run a single graphical application, such as for example firefox, without loading any gui (no KDE, no Gnome, etc), that is my system is currently set in runlevel 3.

I tried xinit /usr/bin/firefox, and it does work, but firefox does not cover my whole screen, and when it pops up windows they have no borders.

What can I do to make things go better? Mb is there any xinit option or config file to edit?

Thank you all very much.

firefox have -width and -height options. See "firefox --help"

Also, take a look at this:
http://www.ehartwell.com/TechNotes/K...SLAXBootCD.htm
http://forums.devshed.com/linux-help...ot-315378.html
http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/src/kiosk/

Thx for your help... But I haven't found a solution yet..

I tried -width and -height options but firefox seems just to ignore them.
I tried even on a full loaded gnome desktop's konsole and with many integer values but firefox window's dimensions were always the same.

In the gnome konsole I used something like
/usr/bin/firefox -width 100
while on runlever3 system I used
xinit /usr/bin/firefox -width 100

The links you gave me were very interesting but they did't help me enough cause none of them referred to Fedora and above all none of them run firefox just using xinit.

No other ideas? Nobody ever used xinit to launch applications?

You can't have borders if you don't have a window manager.
You should probably use a fullscreen-only window-manager, such as Matchbox (user-friendly) or Ion (less so).

Yves.

I compiled and installed matchbox on my system, in standalone mode.
I have to say now firefox run fine!

Thank you!

The only problem is I still dont know how to lauch it! =D
I explain better.

I tried to create a .Xclient file in my home where i put the command "exec /usr/local/bin/matchbox-window-manager" but gdm still run gnome.

So I set system to runlevel 3, and I was able to launch firefox in these ways:
1) "xinit /usr/local/bin/matchbox-window-manager" on tty1
"/usr/bin/firefox" on tt2
2) "xinit /usr/bin/firefox" on tty1
"matchbox-window-manager" on tty
3) "xinit" on tty1
"/usr/bin/firefox &" on the shell run within xinit contest
"matchbox-window-manager" on that same shell or on any tty

So now how can i run it in runlevel 5?

Or how to init X-server and matchbox on runlevel3 so that any X-client application could be invoked by command line?

Thanks.

For GDM, you need a file in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ (unless that's a Mandriva-specific path…) that refers to a script you'll create like this:
For the format of the file itself, in /etc/X11/wmsession.d/, adapt one of those existing.

Yves.

Ok solved, it works fine now.

But yes, /etc/X11/wmsession.d/ is a Mandriva specific path.

On Fedora I had to edit /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession file.

Thanks for all.