this is exactly what i was looking to suggest. and of course you can use a combination of frames for multiple content. If you get the web-server/client part well done enough there is a good market for this solution (trust me, I have seen solutions go upwards of 10k) On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Matt Graham wrote: > From: Alex Dean >> Getting software to display a series of images seems like >> no problem.  I find lots of options there.  But I'd also like to >> sometimes display a web page, so (for instance) I can see the weather >> report from 7-8 am while I'm getting breakfast. >> >> I think I can probably do this with xscreensaver hacks, but I haven't >> come across anything specific yet.  Anyone know of any tutorials for >> displaying a web page as screensaver content?  (Or some other way to >> get a web page displayed full-screen, without any window chrome at all.) > > "firefox http://example.org/", when the firefox process has started, use > xmacroplay to simulate an F11 keypress for "kiosk mode".  There's probably a > better way.  This is just what I thought of off the top of my head.  You could > also use wmctrl to hide the window and keep the process running, which would > be better than stopping/restarting a heavyweight process if you want web pages > displayed at various times.  ISTR an xscreensaver module that grabbed JPEGs > from random places on the Net and displayed them, but that's just slightly > less complex than rendering HTML+CSS.  If the pages you need to display aren't > really complex, they might look OK in dillo or the GUI version of links, but > you'd have to test that out first. > > -- > Matt G / Dances With Crows > The Crow202 Blog:  http://crow202.org/wordpress/ > There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss