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Sorry for the rather broad question, but I'm just looking for some leads here to get started on this...
Let's say I have a CentOS machine running the X Windows System. I'd like to have the machine only display a single application (let's say Mozilla Firefox) and have that application full screen at all times. Is there a more suitable distro to do this with than CentOS?
I hope I've given enough information here about what I want to do.
Thanks!
I think you are looking for kiosk mode, you can achieve this by various kiosk based linux based iso distribution like http://sanickiosk.wikidot.com/ (Sanickiosk) and WebKiosk
(http://www.binaryemotions.com/).
Even you can customize ubuntu to run only firefox in full screen mode (http://www.instructables.com/id/Setting-Up-Ubuntu-as-a-Kiosk-Web-Appliance/?ALLSTEPS).
Thanks & Regards,
Alok Thaker
I'm really not sure if this is the proper place, but the disto for this type of use hardly matters, its really up to personal preference and how hard you find it to set up. In my limited expirence you can just add the command to launch the app, typically with a geometry option (with firefox you can specify the -width and -height flags), and then that X session will end when the program ends.
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For the past few days in my kali linux machine, the home screen is appearing entirely blank. All the files that were save there is not showing and the floating dock is not appearing like before when i move my cursor to the left. I searched stackexchange and saw that I have to modify some settings in tweak. But I cannot change a thing is tweak. Here is how it appears.
and this is how the extension region of Tweak appears.
Please help, what to do. As I am having a lot of problems due to the dock missing from the side, and all the desktop icons removed. (though i can access them via files).
In the tweaks program, turn the following extensions on: Dash to dock, Desktop icons.
Dash to dock is the left sidebar.
Desktop icons extension shows the files on the desktop.
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I use Linux Mint 18.3. Recently I downloaded a game for Windows called SCP Containment Breach. I have managed to get it to run, but it crashes shortly afterwards during the loading screen and a small window pops up saying 'Memory access violation'.
I at first thought the problem was that I wasn't giving Wine enough memory, but even after using winetricks to increase the video memory Wine is permitted to access, I got the same error.
I have been trying to get it to work for ages now so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I was having that problem too on linux. I have looked everywhere on the internet to find a solution but I did not find one. So I decided to try to solve it myself.
I have found a solution!
It is simple, in the game directory there is an options.ini file.
Just open it with any text editor
Go down to where it says enable vram = 0 and change it to enable vram = 1
After that go to where it says play startup video = true and change it to play startup video = false.
It should work perfectly after that! If it did not work then just tell me and I will try to figure out another method.
You're Welcome!
-Fathergorgi
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Ok so I know it's a weird case but hang in here with me.
So the thing is I've got an very old laptop running ubuntu 14.04 server without any desktop aka shell only. BUT the laptop also has a touch screen so we want to be able to use the "mouse"/touchscreen/touchpad to select text inside the terminal and/or click/copy/paste/cut/etc. It's part of art project with some students and also one of the tasks is to run as less as possible. So running a desktop in the background is not really an option. My question is:
Is there a way to start the Ubuntu terminal as UI application in fullscreen without the actual desktop in the background but giving the functionality of an mouse cursor.
(If someone knows a even better solution for adding a mouse without starting the desktop its appreciated)
Try this: create a ~/.xinitrc with content : exec gnome-terminal, then run startx
Or another solution is to stay in tty and install gpm for mouse control
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Ubuntu Trusty Tahr 14.04
I would like to replicate a feature from a program i used to use in windows. stardock fences allowed me to hide all of the icons (i wanted to) on my desktop by double clicking, and then reveal them by double clicking again.
I believe something along these lines:
gconftool-2 /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop --type bool --set false
from this page (ubuntu forums)
, is what I am looking to do. my question then becomes:
How do I invoke a shell script by double clicking on the EMPTY desktop?
Yes, I know I can use an icon instead. I want the desktop. I don't even have any icons I have to have on the desktop... Oh well. I would think it's possible and I would like to learn how. The feature itself is not the most important, but when I came to the question of HOW and had no answer - that's a problem ;)
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When I am using Awesome-WM under Linux Mint 13 "Maya" MATE, sometimes I need to open the File Manager "Caja". But when I launch caja, the wallpaper changes to the one I set under MATE instead of the one in rc.lua. I have tried
sudo gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background false
but it seems useless.
How can I keep my settings under awesome-wm? Or I should set the 2 backgrounds the same?
You could try setting your wallpaper using feh.
Create a .fehbg file in your $HOME and put this in:
feh --bg-scale '/path/to/wallpaper.jpg'
..then save it.
Then in your autostart script just add sh $HOME/.fehbg & then try restarting your DE. If it still persists after opening Caja, then I am not sure about that since I am totally unfamiliar with Caja, rather, I am not familiar with MATE at all.
I think what's happening is that caja is set to 'manage' your desktop. That means it'll change your wallpaper to the one set in MATE, and probably display desktop icons as well, e.g., Computer, Home, etc. This has always been a problem for me when using alternative window managers on Ubuntu, because nautilus does it as well. With nautilus the behaviour can be turned off using the terminal flag --no-desktop. caja seems to be a descendant of nautilus and a quick Google shows references to the same terminal option for it as well. So I suggest you try
caja --no-desktop
and see if that works for you.