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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.




Firefox version 1.0.7
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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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Old January 3rd, 2006, 02:13 AM
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What I want to achieve currently is to auto launch firefox on system boot.

Locking down firefox to create a web kiosk is not an issue yet.
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Code:
ff=`which firefox`
ln -s $ff /etc/init.d/firefox
ln -s /etc/init.d/firefox /etc/rc5.d/S99firefox


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:
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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.
Code:
chmod +x /home/balvin/.kde/Autostart/firefox
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Check out TDLP
In TDLP thereis a kiosk mode setup.
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Thanks for the info guys. It has proven to be very usefull.

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Thanks for the info guys. It has proven to be very usefull.

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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. 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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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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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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