"kiosk" (kind of)

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Jul 13 09:31:14 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 00:19 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> I have built an application that runs through Firefox.  I want to automatically
> load Firefox at at boot time and load my web page. I believe (though I haven't
> done it yet) that I can set up gdm to automatically log in and do that.  I don't
> need a desktop here, really, just Firefox.  Setting the homepage to my
> webserver should take care of that.

Easy enough to do with FC4, and probably with later ones, but I've not
tried it on them.  Set up GDM to automatically log in.  Set up a session
to start up Firefox.  And, as you say, preset your homepage.

> Now my question is, can I configure this thing so it will always log in and load
> Firefox, and won't exit to a password prompt?

If you didn't want someone doing that, you'd want to look into one of
the kiosk set ups to make it hard to log out.

> I want to have just a mouse and a monitor on this thing, no keyboard,
> so it would lead to an interesting situation if one of the users
> logged out and got back to a password prompt.

You probably could use a face browser with the GDM screen, and set up a
guest log-in that didn't need a password.  Not sure if you can do a
timed re-log-in so that it'd log in, again, without anybody doing
anything.

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