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  • Canonical Announces Ubuntu Frame As A Full-Screen Shell Built On Mir

    Phoronix: Canonical Announces Ubuntu Frame As A Full-Screen Shell Built On Mir

    Canonical today announced the launch of Ubuntu Frame, its full-screen shell built atop the Wayland-embracing Mir server for embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases...

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    What is the benefit of this over a Weston shell?

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    • #3
      Originally posted by uid313 View Post
      What is the benefit of this over a Weston shell?
      It's got electrolytes

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      • #4
        Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
        I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
        Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Mez' View Post
          Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
          I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
          Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
          Not you of course Mez

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Mez' View Post
            Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
            I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
            Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
            There is a kioski mode for gnome now (although I don't know about its status for mainstream distros):
            Less is more. This is often the perspective behind requests we see that involve the words “light weight." I’ve come to loosely translate this to mean, “install and/or run only the applications I care about with no fluff.” The motivation can be any number of problems around decreasing the installed footprint for security purposes, maximizing system resources, or perceived stability improvements from using less software (less to go wrong). 

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Mez' View Post
              Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
              I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
              Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
              Does KDM still exist?! o-o

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mez' View Post
                Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
                I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
                Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
                Maybe you already can install it on a laptop? Why wouldn't you be able to?

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Mez' View Post
                  Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
                  I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
                  Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
                  That isn't available "out of the box" because Ubuntu Frame has no way to launch your Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session. (It would be easy to launch both from a script though - and run that on login.)

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Mez' View Post
                    Would be cool if it wasn't just limited to "embedded displays, IoT, and related use-cases" but could be installed on a few clicks on a laptop/desktop and allow for a kiosk mode login from /G/K/LightDM.
                    I would love to have a Spotify/Youtube/whatever-only session for when you throw a party or dinner.
                    Guests could change the music at their will while not having any access to other parts of your computer while you're passed out drunk somewhere else (not me).
                    Why don't you use cage for that use case ?

                    A Wayland kiosk. Contribute to cage-kiosk/cage development by creating an account on GitHub.

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