You can configure firefox (via about:config) to run in kiosk mode.
There are also kiosk-centric distros out there. You might want to take a look
at them.
--- mike t.
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From: Tito Mari Francis Escaño <[email protected]>
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
<[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] Pointers on starting X, then run browser and when it quits,
automatically shutdown the computer
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.
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>On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tito Mari Francis Escaño
><[email protected]> wrote:
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>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.
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