Using VNC with dumb terminals

[James Weatherall]

> You can arrange to run only mozilla for clients, but I have 
> run into some problems doing it completely without a window 
> manager; X apps in linux expect some of the keyboard focus 
> and miscelaneous functions to be done by a window manager.  
> 
> But even so, you can run a very simple window manager, and 
> only run mozilla; I've used twm for this purpose, but others 
> might be even less intrusive (though twm can be configured to 
> be quite un-noticable).
> It's not terribly complicated, but it would involve some 
> scripting in shell or perl, most likely.  And writing a twm 
> config file (twm being quite old, and being configured by 
> text file only).

I'd recommend the Matchbox window manager for this sort of application,
because it runs apps full-screen and, if I remember correctly, is actually
designed to support just running a single-app full-screen.

Cheers,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.