[geeks] Linux Web Kiosk

Phil Stracchino alaric at metrocast.net
Sun Mar 2 08:53:26 CST 2008


Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Couldn't you do a .xinitrc with an "exec /usr/local/bin/firefox -----" 
> give it the args for a kiosk (I remember you could do that with netscape 
> back in the day...) .... if a user quits firefox they're logged out.

But then you've got to automatically log the kiosk back in again. 
Better to prevent the user from quitting Firefox in the first place.


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