launch X apps on a server from a php script

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Hello,
I would like to use php - apache to work as a solution for a kiosk
that has to be
managed from a remote client.
I have obtained the pc shutdown with a system() call, and now I would
like
to know if there is a way to launch openoffice from the php script.
The -dislay option seems not to work..
Suggestions?
Thanks,
tano

[C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)]

Re: launch X apps on a server from a php script

On 21 Apr, 21:41, "\"\"" <gaetanoort...@ yahoo.itwrote:

Hello,
I would like to use php - apache to work as a solution for a kiosk
that has to be
managed from a remote client.
I have obtained the pc shutdown with a system() call, and now I would
like
to know if there is a way to launch openoffice from the php script.
The -dislay option seems not to work..
Suggestions?
Thanks,
tano

Sounds like a very strange way of managing a system.

You need to learn a lot about X and how it works. Have you allowed the
client to connect to the server (in X lingo, the server is where the
screen mouse and keyboard are, while the client is where the program
runs) using xhost or by transfering the cookies?

I suggest you send follow-ups to an X or Unix newsgroup

C.

[C. (http://symcbean.blogspot.com/)]

Re: launch X apps on a server from a php script

On 22 Apr, 14:42, "C. (http://symcbean.blogsp ot.com/)"
<colin.mckin... @gmail.comwrote :

On 21 Apr, 21:41, "\"\"" <gaetanoort...@ yahoo.itwrote:
>

Hello,
I would like to use php - apache to work as a solution for a kiosk
that has to be
managed from a remote client.
I have obtained the pc shutdown with a system() call, and now I would
like
to know if there is a way to launch openoffice from the php script.
The -dislay option seems not to work..
Suggestions?
Thanks,
tano

>
Sounds like a very strange way of managing a system.
>
You need to learn a lot about X and how it works. Have you allowed the
client to connect to the server (in X lingo, the server is where the
screen mouse and keyboard are, while the client is where the program
runs) using xhost or by transfering the cookies?
>
I suggest you send follow-ups to an X or Unix newsgroup
>
C.

(or use sudo)

C.

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Re: launch X apps on a server from a php script

It could be strange, but I do not find a better one. (Suggestions? The
only
alternative I found is run apache as the same user that login
automatically
on gnome). I know how X works, however I was not pratical with all the
security settings X provides (it seems that add a sudo line that allow
to run a shell script as the X server user works, even if I have to
run
xhost for the user that use sudo (it seems very complicated)).
Really, for the future I would like to know if there are more direct
ways
to do things like this.. :-)

[Claudio Corlatti]

Re: launch X apps on a server from a php script

this is not a elegant solution but maybe you can write a link to a
openoffice empty document, this way when the user click it (if he had
associated open office with that extension) openoffice will open