Re: Desktop

["Karsten M. Self" <karsten@linuxmafia.com>]

on Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 02:33:59AM -0500, RickTaylor@Speakeasy.Net (RickTaylor@Speakeasy.Net) wrote:
> Is there an HTML desktop for linux? That's all I want to run... an
> HTML desktop {like active desktop} and a lightweight windowmanager. 
> 
> Is it possible to imbed Mozilla somehow? Dillo? A plain HTML canvas?
> ...

What do you want to do with this desktop?

If you play with the xscreensaver hacks, you'll find that most of them
(all AFAIK) can be run as a "root" window.

You can pretty much do the same with _any_ application if you:

  - Run it with no decorations (find out what your WM needs to do for
    this).

  - Run it sized to your desktop.

  - Run it pinned to the bottom of your window stack.

  - Enable or disable keybindings, as desired.


While I don't run a browser like this (nor do I think I'd want to), I do
run a number of applications "on the desktop", including xrootconsole
and xload monitors for my networked systems.


Peace.

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