Right. I'm doing a build for a little thing that will sit next to my door and remind me to do stuff (please don't write in with lo-tech alternatives, I'll have tried most of the ones you mention! ADHD can be very interesting sometimes!) . The hardware will be a Small form factor PC and a Lilliput touchscreen and Griffin powermate silver (it's like a USB volume knob but I plan to use it for scrolling as well) plus at least 1 arduino and a lot of sensors (so it knows when my front door opens, for example). Obviously this is a humungous project but what I'm planning on as 'Level 1' of the project is a basic touchscreen interface. I'm planning to use PHP to generate the interface as my book on the Arduino uses it as part of it's development environment so it minimises the research I have to do. My test-install of Linux will be Xubuntu but it still has too much desktop for what I want. As I'm planning to run only the interface on this machine and that will be web based I don't really need a desktop environment as such. Just a single fullscreen window and possibly the ability to launch CLI as well. I've looked into interfaces and currently Matchbox seems the best x window manager for the purpose (I'm sure I could set up minimal if not non-existent window frames) http://matchbox-project.org/ and as far as I've seen has no toolbar or icons unless you want them. If anyone knows of anything else that would be better than this then please let me know. Now all I need to do is find a chromeless browser. (I was cursing Google for naming their browser "Chrome" STUPID, STUPID! Ironic that the principal Search Engine provider would do something that makes certain searches ["Browser Chrome", "Chromeless Browser" etc. ] harder. They've got a phone OS named Android, why didn't they call the browser 'Cyborg' or something?!... ) I don't need a back button or reload or icons or any toolbar at all, I don't need info on whether a page is loading or not. If it doesn't load the (local) information instantly then it will be obvious that I need to do something about it. I simply need a completely blank window (or even some kind of fullscreen implementation) that will display html generated by the PHP on my localhost. Some kind of CLI based or setup method of setting up the homepage would obviously be needed but I don't want it to look like a browser. I just want it to run my code. So a chromeless browser or a means of setting up a browser to launch with zero chrome (Konqueror? Firefox?) would be ideal. Any page switching and interfacing could easily be written as part of the window. Any help on whether this kind of thing is available and where I could get it would be extremely useful. Also, when it comes to customising my Linux would it be easier to: Install Xubuntu, uninstall Xfce and then install Matchbox or Do a custom install of Xubuntu, don't include Xfce and install Matchbox or Install a different version of Linux altogether? Thanks in advance for any help with this project. Timothy Rayner Khi-Ro Limited t. 01733 405820 timothy.ray...@khi-ro.com
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