[olug] Digital picture frame distro

[Obi-Wan]

> For the screen in the wall at the shop, I just have it startup to a  
> prompt, then launch X from a script through 'local' start. The script  
> runs startx, ...

Thanks, Jay.  So you still have to have a keyboard accessible in order
to log in, right?  I wonder if it's possible to replace g/kdm with
another app that would start X and run as a service on startup so that
I wouldn't have to touch the keyboard or mouse pad (touch screen
support in Fedora 9 & Ubuntu 8.04 sucked on this model -- haven't tried
the latest releases yet).  There'd be virtually no writing done to the
drive, so I'm not concerned with simply powering it off when done.

I've never monkeyed with g/kdm before.  Do any of you know off the
top of your head what it would take to run an arbitrary X app instead
of the login manager?  If not, I can google as well as anybody...

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Ben "Obi-Wan" Hollingsworth                             obiwan at jedi.com
   The stuff of earth competes for the allegiance I owe only to the
     Giver of all good things, so if I stand, let me stand on the
       promise that You will pull me through.  -- Rich Mullins