use web page as screen saver?

[Stephen]

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 <danceswithcrows at usa.net> wrote:
> From: Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org>
>> 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.
>
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