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  Re: Making a modal window Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2018-12-09 19:30 +0100
    Re: Making a modal window Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-09 20:30 +0100
      Re: Making a modal window Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-12-09 20:50 +0100
        Re: Making a modal window Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2018-12-09 21:00 +0100
          Re: Making a modal window Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2018-12-09 22:00 +0100
            Re: Making a modal window Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-12-09 23:00 +0100
    Re: Making a modal window Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com> - 2018-12-10 02:50 +0100

#203198 — Re: Making a modal window

On Sunday 09 December 2018 13:03:53 J.Arun Mani wrote:

> Hello,
> [I'M UNSURE WHETHER IT IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO ASK THIS QUESTION. IF NOT
> PLEASE GUIDE ME TO THE RIGHT PLACE] I'm making a project(using
> Python3) which opens whenever someone opens their computer (assume
> Linux-Debain based) and asks them some details. The user should not be
> allowed to use the computer without giving the details. The project is
> based on GTK3 and is for Debian based OS. I need help in the
> following- How can I make the application modal? That is, make sure
> that the user cannot access any thing in desktop without giving the
> details (the application is a compulsory one, thus one should not be
> able to close or minimise it).
>
> I researched on this a bit and found the answers leading to Desktop
> Managers. But I'm stuck how to start with them. So need some help
> here.
>
> Thank You
> J. Arun Mani

First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a computer away 
from its user. Thats the first question thatought to be answered.


-- 
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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#203201

On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 13:27:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 09 December 2018 13:03:53 J.Arun Mani wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > [I'M UNSURE WHETHER IT IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO ASK THIS QUESTION. IF NOT
> > PLEASE GUIDE ME TO THE RIGHT PLACE] I'm making a project(using
> > Python3) which opens whenever someone opens their computer (assume
> > Linux-Debain based) and asks them some details. The user should not be
> > allowed to use the computer without giving the details. The project is
> > based on GTK3 and is for Debian based OS. I need help in the
> > following- How can I make the application modal? That is, make sure
> > that the user cannot access any thing in desktop without giving the
> > details (the application is a compulsory one, thus one should not be
> > able to close or minimise it).
> >
> > I researched on this a bit and found the answers leading to Desktop
> > Managers. But I'm stuck how to start with them. So need some help
> > here.
> >
> > Thank You
> > J. Arun Mani
> 
> First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a computer away 
> from its user. Thats the first question thatought to be answered.

A voice of sanity.

Whatever is behind the idea, it is about as nonsensical and unsophisticted
as it gets.

-- 
Brian.

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#203203

On 12/9/18, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 13:27:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>> First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a computer away
>> from its user. Thats the first question thatought to be answered.
>
> A voice of sanity.
>
> Whatever is behind the idea, it is about as nonsensical and unsophisticted
> as it gets.


I *did* scratch my head as to why a simple login doesn't suffice, but
I can see a really good use/dire need for parents. The.. garbage I'm
experiencing here in North Georgia... Children of ALL ages are being
targeted CONSTANTLY. It would be nice to find something that helped
parents better control children's access to their own tech
equipment....

Cindy :)
-- 
Cindy-Sue Causey
Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA

* runs with birdseed *

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#203204

On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 14:47:39 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:

> On 12/9/18, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 13:27:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>
> >> First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a computer away
> >> from its user. Thats the first question thatought to be answered.
> >
> > A voice of sanity.
> >
> > Whatever is behind the idea, it is about as nonsensical and unsophisticted
> > as it gets.
> 
> 
> I *did* scratch my head as to why a simple login doesn't suffice, but
> I can see a really good use/dire need for parents. The.. garbage I'm
> experiencing here in North Georgia... Children of ALL ages are being
> targeted CONSTANTLY. It would be nice to find something that helped
> parents better control children's access to their own tech
> equipment....

Sorry about this, but what you say sounds like a Trump twitter. Except
it is much more articulated.

-- 
Brian.

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#203205

On Sun, 2018-12-09 at 19:54 +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 14:47:39 -0500, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
> 
> > On 12/9/18, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> > > On Sun 09 Dec 2018 at 13:27:21 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a
> > > > computer away
> > > > from its user. Thats the first question thatought to be
> > > > answered.
> > > 
> > > A voice of sanity.
> > > 
> > > Whatever is behind the idea, it is about as nonsensical and
> > > unsophisticted
> > > as it gets.
> > 
> > I *did* scratch my head as to why a simple login doesn't suffice,
> > but
> > I can see a really good use/dire need for parents. The.. garbage
> > I'm
> > experiencing here in North Georgia... Children of ALL ages are
> > being
> > targeted CONSTANTLY. It would be nice to find something that helped
> > parents better control children's access to their own tech
> > equipment....
> 
> Sorry about this, but what you say sounds like a Trump twitter.
> Except
> it is much more articulated.

As it seems they only want it to run one program - unminimsable, maybe
some kiosk type application - possibly look at how matchbox works. A
distinct lack of information to go on in the question though.

Dom

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#203206

On 12/9/18 3:52 PM, Dominic Knight wrote:
> As it seems they only want it to run one program - unminimsable, maybe
> some kiosk type application - possibly look at how matchbox works. A
> distinct lack of information to go on in the question though.
>
> Dom

It looks to me as if the OP wants to write his own display manager in 
Python, except that his DM would then hand off to another DM to actually 
start a session.

-- 
Carl Fink          carl@finknetwork.com
Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate
http://reasonablyliterate.com

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#203208

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Sunday 09 December 2018 13:03:53 J.Arun Mani wrote:

>> I'm making a project(using Python3)

> First, I fail to see why you should even be able to lock a 
> computer away from its user. Thats the first question 
> thatought to be answered.

I think it's good for you Gene to fail in that fashion. Builds 
character, or something. Is the OP a student, and is his 
"project" part of a "course" he's taking at a "school" 
somewhere?

I love to witness the epic fail modes into which you geniuses 
(think Brian and Gene) fall whenever the subject matter drags 
you only a short distance away from your chosen areas of tech 
competence. What a hoot.

I'd simply help the guy out, rather make his day more difficult 
than it already is, but I don't know crap about programming any 
kind of window.

-- 
"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of 
politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics 
itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and 
schizophrenia."

    George Orwell "Politics and the English Language" (1946)

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