I was hoping to make the browser look like a kiosk interface so I don't think window managers would be needed. Pls advise me should there be gotchas with this idea. Thanks again.
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Brian Baquiran <[email protected]>wrote: > su startx from inittab, run the browser from xinitrc. > > Do you need a window manager? > > > On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escaño < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Good day, >> My task is to design a kiosk that will only display a web browser, Firefox >> for now (I'd also appreciate guide on using Chrome) when Linux boots up. >> When the browser quits, the whole system should shutdown as well. Can you >> please point me to guides how to do this? My idea is for the whole system to >> run off a Live CD, but I'm quite lost how to start the X windowing system, >> then the web browser and then automatically shutdown the whol system. I hope >> you can help me. >> Thank you very much. >> > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >
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