[ale] Mozilla in Kiosk mode

Michael Hirsch mdhirsch at gmail.com
Thu May 12 12:37:59 EDT 2005


On 5/9/05, Geoffrey <esoteric at 3times25.net> wrote:
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I'm running Mozilla on FC2 in kiosk mode with no window manager.  It
> > seems I need a window manager in order to support the select drop down
> > list on forms.  When I run X with no manager I can not use the drop down
> > lists. TWM sucks because it forces the user to select a position in X to
> > place popups.
> 
> You can turn this off, it's the default.  I don't recall how, but I'll
> see if I can dig it up.

Yeah, but TWM sucks anyway.  There are several light weight WMs out
there that are better than TWM in every way.  flwm, ratpoison,
blackbox, even fvwm could be used instead.

Michael



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