I thought I heard that there is a way to run XPhoton as a managed
session, where there is a single root window, window manager,
etc. that can consume an entire Photon console. I haven’t been
able to find any information on how that would be done. Is this
actually possible? I would like to use XPhoton to remotely log into
and work on a networked Linux box. Gnome gets really confused when it
tries to open up every application in its own Photon window,
particularly things like gmc.
Andrew Thomas, President, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.
2430 Meadowpine Boulevard, Suite 105, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6S2
Email: andrew@cogent.ca WWW: http://www.cogent.ca
Andrew Thomas <andrew@cogent.ca> writes:
I thought I heard that there is a way to run XPhoton as a managed
session, where there is a single root window, window manager,
etc. that can consume an entire Photon console. I haven’t been
able to find any information on how that would be done. Is this
actually possible? I would like to use XPhoton to remotely log into
and work on a networked Linux box. Gnome gets really confused when it
tries to open up every application in its own Photon window,
particularly things like gmc.
I found out how to do this (using the -geom flag) by browsing the
other qdn* newsgroups. I am still unable to find any documentation
to suggest this argument exists.
I have a new bug. I connect to a Linux box using XDCMP, and start a
Gnome session there. The login and display are fine (though graphics
speed is horrendous). The big problem is that none of the X
applications ever gets a Mouse-down-motion event. Pull-down menus
don’t operate in click-and-drag mode, and I cannot move any windows by
dragging their title bars. The same X session works fine directly
through the server’s console, or through an MS-Windows based X server
(XWin-32 in my case).
Another question - can we run Xphoton in “kiosk” mode, where it
completely fills a Photon console without having a Photon border or
title bar?
I know that Xphoton is not supposed to be “production” software. I’m
hoping to use it for cross development and system administration so I
won’t have to boot Windows as much, and Linux not at all.
Thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Thomas, President, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.
2430 Meadowpine Boulevard, Suite 105, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6S2
Email: andrew@cogent.ca WWW: http://www.cogent.ca
Andrew Thomas <andrew@cogent.ca> wrote:
Andrew Thomas <> andrew@cogent.ca> > writes:
I thought I heard that there is a way to run XPhoton as a managed
session, where there is a single root window, window manager,
etc. that can consume an entire Photon console. I haven’t been
able to find any information on how that would be done. Is this
actually possible? I would like to use XPhoton to remotely log into
and work on a networked Linux box. Gnome gets really confused when it
tries to open up every application in its own Photon window,
particularly things like gmc.
I found out how to do this (using the -geom flag) by browsing the
other qdn* newsgroups. I am still unable to find any documentation
to suggest this argument exists.
Try -root and -kiosk
chris
–
cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL
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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> writes:
Andrew Thomas <> andrew@cogent.ca> > wrote:
Andrew Thomas <> andrew@cogent.ca> > writes:
I thought I heard that there is a way to run XPhoton as a managed
session, where there is a single root window, window manager,
etc. that can consume an entire Photon console. I haven’t been
able to find any information on how that would be done. Is this
actually possible? I would like to use XPhoton to remotely log into
and work on a networked Linux box. Gnome gets really confused when it
tries to open up every application in its own Photon window,
particularly things like gmc.
I found out how to do this (using the -geom flag) by browsing the
other qdn* newsgroups. I am still unable to find any documentation
to suggest this argument exists.
Try -root and -kiosk
Thanks, Chris. That works well. Can you point me to the
documentation for this? Also, I’m still curious about how to get
mouse-down-motion events to work. A lot of features (obviously)
depend on it:
I have a new bug. I connect to a Linux box using XDCMP, and start a
Gnome session there. The login and display are fine (though
graphics speed is horrendous). The big problem is that none of the
X applications ever gets a Mouse-down-motion event. Pull-down menus
don’t operate in click-and-drag mode, and I cannot move any windows
by dragging their title bars. The same X session works fine
directly through the server’s console, or through an MS-Windows
based X server (XWin-32 in my case).
Thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Thomas, President, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.
2430 Meadowpine Boulevard, Suite 105, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6S2
Email: andrew@cogent.ca WWW: http://www.cogent.ca
Try -root and -kiosk
Thanks, Chris. That works well. Can you point me to the
documentation for this? Also, I’m still curious about how to get
mouse-down-motion events to work. A lot of features (obviously)
depend on it:
I only know about those options from playing and talking with the
developer that did the work! 
As for the mouse-down-motion, I have
the same problem and I am not sure what the fix is for that right now.
chris
cdm@qnx.com > “The faster I go, the behinder I get.”
Chris McKillop – Lewis Carroll –
Software Engineer, QSSL
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Chris McKillop <cdm@qnx.com> writes:
Try -root and -kiosk
Thanks, Chris. That works well. Can you point me to the
documentation for this? Also, I’m still curious about how to get
mouse-down-motion events to work. A lot of features (obviously)
depend on it:
I only know about those options from playing and talking with the
developer that did the work! >
In that case, could you please point this out to the documentation
folks?
As for the mouse-down-motion, I have the same problem and I am not
sure what the fix is for that right now.
At least it’s reproduceable. Has a bug report been filed by anybody
on this one.
Thanks,
Andrew
Andrew Thomas, President, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.
2430 Meadowpine Boulevard, Suite 105, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6S2
Email: andrew@cogent.ca WWW: http://www.cogent.ca