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I would like to know how can I auto launch firefox on system boot. That means once booted the user can only see the web browser.
I guess this is what u call web kiosk (correct me if I`m wrong)
Any help is appretiated. Thanks in advance.
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In order for the user to only be able to access and use Firefox, you would have to do some heavy modifications. These involve (but are not limited to):
- Removing minimize, maximize/restore, exit buttons
- Disabling various key combinations (alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-backspace, etc)
- Heavy customization of desktop environment and security the install
Loading Firefox at boot is one thing, but locking down a web browser only kiosk is different. Can you be more specific in your goal?
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Two things have come out of Berkeley, Unix and LSD.
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First we find where the firefox binary is.
Second we point a symbolic link at it.
Third we set another symbolic link that tells the system to load firefox in multi-user mode in X.
If you're using KDE, you could also set your login manager (eg: kdm) to automatically login as a specific user (eg: balvin), then place a script like so:
Code:
vi /home/balvin/.kde/Autostart/firefox
#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/firefox
This is assuming that the firefox binary is located in /usr/bin/firefox. It might be elsewhere, so check by running which firefox. Finally, you need to make your script executable.
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Originally Posted by balvin
I would like to know how can I auto launch firefox on system boot. That means once booted the user can only see the web browser. I guess this is what u call web kiosk (correct me if I`m wrong) Any help is appretiated. Thanks in advance. Firefox version 1.0.7, CentOS version 4.2
I've just written a tech note on Creating a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox and SLAX Linux. I used the R-kiosk 0.2 Firefox extension to disable menus and buttons and go full-screen. I used a small SLAX distro so the whole thing boots from CD, on just about any PC, without touching (or even needing) a hard disk.
I modified xinitrc to run Firefox instead of the desktop. This is really easy to do in SLAX, but the procedure should apply to any Linux using the X Window System. Isn't technology wonderful?
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Originally Posted by ehartwell
I've just written a tech note on Creating a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox and SLAX Linux. I used the R-kiosk 0.2 Firefox extension to disable menus and buttons and go full-screen. I used a small SLAX distro so the whole thing boots from CD, on just about any PC, without touching (or even needing) a hard disk.
I modified xinitrc to run Firefox instead of the desktop. This is really easy to do in SLAX, but the procedure should apply to any Linux using the X Window System. Isn't technology wonderful?
Could you please share that technote .. it would be really helpfull for enthusiasts
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Originally Posted by GNUbie
In order for the user to only be able to access and use Firefox, you would have to do some heavy modifications. These involve (but are not limited to):
- Removing minimize, maximize/restore, exit buttons
- Disabling various key combinations (alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-backspace, etc)
- Heavy customization of desktop environment and security the install
Loading Firefox at boot is one thing, but locking down a web browser only kiosk is different. Can you be more specific in your goal?
- Removing minimize, maximize/restore, exit buttons
- Disabling various key combinations (alt-tab, ctrl-alt-del, ctrl-alt-backspace, etc)
- Heavy customization of desktop environment and security the install
How do we do these steps ?? Can you give some tips ..
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