[Gambas-user] Gambas Internet Cafe

[Dimitri Bellini]

Thanks Rob
	for your possible solution, after your suggest i want ask if is possible to 
start a mozilla session and after time period (credit left) kill from a main 
Gambas apps like a child proc? What do you think? 
Sorry for my bad explanation (english problem..) .
Thanks in advance
Dimitri Bellini

On Monday 29 March 2004 15:24, Rob wrote:
> On Monday 29 March 2004 10:55, Dimitri Bellini wrote:
> > Can someone give me some hits to control the Client Side
> > Desktop (like Logout after finished the credit, or to push
> > info to the client?) Thanks in advance
>
> I've actually done a number of applications where Gambas was the
> primary interface during login (a game menu, a banking terminal
> application, etc.) where you want to kill the session after
> you're done, and it can be done a number of ways.  None of them
> is exactly what you want to do but maybe I can give you some
> ideas.
>
> For the game menu, which I did using KDE, I just put the icon in
> the autostart folder, made the gambas app full screen and always
> on top, and then hid it when the games ran and restored it when
> they exited (using SHELL...WAIT).  I didn't have a need to log
> out (just shutdown or reboot, which can be done with "halt" or
> "reboot" respectively, at least on Mandrake) but have a look at
> kdeinit_shutdown.  (I think "killall kdeinit" will do the same
> thing, maybe not as nicely.)
>
> For the banking apps, I was running them under VNC, and in the
> .xsession-startup I had a line "sawfish &" (sawfish being the
> most minimal window manager I had on hand that still worked the
> way Windows users expect...) and then my app, *not*
> backgrounded.  My app was once again full screen (the window
> manager was just there for the dialogs.)  After that I think I
> did something like killall Xvnc, since it was running under VNC.
> (Obviously each user could only have one of these sessions
> running.)
>
> Rob
>
>
>
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