HTML ScreenSaver on logon screen?

[gmj]

Hi All.

 

I wish to be able to display a webpage as a screensaver on workstation logon screen, but so far have been unable to find a solution. Has anyone managed to do this or does this? I have tried using HTML Screensaver (HTML Screensaver, Universal ScreenSaver, Web Screen Saver) which will work when a user is logged on, but fails to display webpages when at the logon screen, errors for a memory error.

 

Any applications/,methods that people use to achieve this?

 

Thanks,

 

gmj

[Steve21]

Personally I wouldn't advise it.

 

You can do it by using a custom shell (a .scr is just an exe renamed). So you can make a say VB.net program that loads it. However as it runs as system your filtering will be off (as should I say filtered as system), and then if someone browses to another page etc it'll have it without filtering etc.

 

What is it you wanted to show? As anything like say an RSS page could be downloaded and displayed locally without internet etc.

 

Steve

[gmj]

We are want to show a page that will be on our clickview server. I believe that idea is to display school messages/news.

[Steve21]

Does clickview still require flash etc? As not sure how many addins etc can be loaded on that page as I know they started removing the options. (DirectX gets blocked normally when trying to run videos)

 

But guess the principle should work fine if it's an internal URL etc. Can always knock up a very rough example if you have the internal URL you want it pointing to (Just to test the theory)

 

Steve

[gmj]

Honestly not sure if Clickview requires flash to be honest. The URL I wish to display is Digital Signage - ClickView Online . If you could knock up a rough example, a would be very, very grateful

[Arthur]

What about using something like PhantomJS or Selenium to capture a screenshot of the webpage(s) on a schedule, save them to a share and then get the screensaver to look in that folder for the images?

[Steve21]

Honestly not sure if Clickview requires flash to be honest. The URL I wish to display is Digital Signage - ClickView Online . If you could knock up a rough example, a would be very, very grateful

 

Hmm that's gonna get more complex. By default a .NET webbrowser runs are IE7 so disables all javascript etc, to get that to work you'd need to start playing around with FeatureControls in registry etc to allow the exe permissions to run with javascript etc etc :s

 

Steve