Front end for non touch screens

**ryan518w** · 04-19-2010, 01:20 AM

Hello......I am kinda new to this and my install is in a dodge grand caravan....my computer is a asus motherboard with Pentium III Processor
512mb SDRAM
Nvidia 8mb agp gpu I (know dead end hardware but will upgrade soon)
Windows XP pro (think of switching to ubuntu 9.10 but dunno yet)
17 inch gateway lcd monitor (I kno..... huge)
but I wanted to know what is a gud frontend program that i can use with a non touch screen monitor and external application luncher and blue tooth and ipod integration and stuff like that i will also be using a wireless remote control with mouse emulator insted of a mouse and a small ps2 usb keyboard software like ride runner is a pain to use with out a touch screen......pleaze help

**justchat_1** · 04-19-2010, 10:28 AM

With linux your only choice at the moment is nGhost/linuxICE but that really needs a touch screen (or mouse) to be used.

openMobile and centrafuse are both pretty easy to use with a keyboard but feel free to go down the list and check out all the rest:
http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/front-ends/

**ryan518w** · 04-19-2010, 10:57 AM

What do you guys think about media engine

**justchat_1** · 04-19-2010, 12:42 PM

it hasn't been developed in at least 2 years

**ryan518w** · 04-19-2010, 01:13 PM

o ok because thats what i m using now I want one one that supports bluetooth

**HiJackZX1** · 04-19-2010, 01:16 PM

Well alot of front ends are pretty versatile. With CF I use a Sony RM-X5 remote control to control the PC. You can easily take a joystick and repurpose it to work with the car pc.

**ryan518w** · 04-19-2010, 07:29 PM

wat is a gud bluetooth software to use like just stand alone bluetooth software that i can run with along media engine

**ShortyDoo** · 04-20-2010, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by ZX1Cruizer

Well alot of front ends are pretty versatile. With CF I use a Sony RM-X5 remote control to control the PC. You can easily take a joystick and repurpose it to work with the car pc.

how exactly do you make that remote work?

**ryan518w** · 04-20-2010, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by ShortyDoo

how exactly do you make that remote work?

i jus pluged it in and it worked and you can configure it in the little configuration screen under remote config

**Fuegomp3** · 04-20-2010, 07:31 PM

Hello, I use the Riderunner with a skin made by me, which I control with a USB joystick economists, who are like the playstation pads. Also, I add a rotary encoder circuit, it makes me very like the use without touchscreen.

My CarPC is a pent III 933, 256 ram and winXP.