On Wednesday 20 December 2006 01:01, Lars. Tunkrans wrote: > Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > > Dear all > > > > We have a lab with ~20 SunRays feeding off a Solaris 10 x86 machine > > running srss 3.1 in kiosk mode. > > > > Our users would like to be able to view special image types (tiff etc) > > ont he web that are not natively supported by firefox.
<snip> > Start a CAM session verify that you are USER utcu0 > Start firefox and initialize all defaults to your likeing > Open all files that you need to automate . Run all media types that > you wish to > program and select to " always Open media X with App Y" , Do NOT Exit > FIREFOX. Within firefox, a kiosk user is not allowed to declare new plugins. Choosing a helper application for TIFF images (e.g. /opt/csw/bin/display) enables one to display the images in an external viewer, but not within the browser, in page frames etc. We would need a plugin (like plugger.so) for this, BUT firefox's interface does not allow us to declare a plugin as a handler. In firefox's preferences, the "Use this plugin" radio button is greyed out and the text box below it says "None Available" So I tried to hand-edit /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat to include the following stanza: <----------------------[pluginreg.dat]--------------------------------------> /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/plugins/plugger.so:$ :$ 1141820951283:1:1:$ Tiff Stuff with Plugger:$ plugger for TIFFs:$ 3 0:image/tiff:TIFF image:tiff:$ 1:image/x-tiff:TIFF image 2:tif:$ <---------------------------------------------------------------------------> But about:plugins does not show plugger recognized by firefox. > From another terminal : Copy the whole > /var/opt/SUNWbb/root/home/utcu0/.mozilla/* hierarchy > to /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla > BEFORE YOU EXIT FIREFOX on the first screen. > Then you rename > /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.default > to something like > /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/.mozilla/firefox/*.CAM > > Make sure that the whole hierarchy ( including dot-files ) is set > to read-only and owned by root:root so no-one > can change the files in /var/opt/SUNWut/kiosk/prototypes/firefox/ > > Then you edit your CAM application firefox parameters so that the > commandline is > > /opt/sfw/bin/firefox -P CAM The web interface on port 1660 does not seem to allow this. I passed the said argument to the invocation command of firefox, applied and logged out, only to find it had reverted to the default (non-argument) command once I logged in again. I tried to write a wrapper script for opt/sfw/bin/firefox, which is itself a wrapper, which doesn't work too nicely - the environment variables do not reach the binary :-) But I'll look into that. > This will convince firefox to load your now stored and canned > firefox profile. > > This will save all your edits into a Prototype that from now will > be replicated to any/all CAM users. > Then Cold-Restart the CAM . > > > Why do you need to do this ? > > Mainly because you want to customize the mimeTypes.rdf file and > prefs.js file These files are saved for each user. > root's mimeType.rdf file is saved in /.mozilla , not in the > /opt/sfw/lib/firefox/default/profile/mimeTypes.rdf. If I'm not mistaken the file that captures plugin information is .mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat and/or (?) .mozilla/pluginreg.dat. At least on this installation, mimeTypes.rdf is empty: <---------------------[mimeTypes.rdf]--------------------------> <?xml version="1.0"?> <RDF xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; xmlns:NC="http://home.netscape.com/NC-rdf#";> <Description about="urn:mimetypes"> <NC:MIME-types> <Seq about="urn:mimetypes:root"> </Seq> </NC:MIME-types> </Description> </RDF> <--------------------------------------------------------------> As I only have intermittent access to the installation, I'll look into the matter further and let you know. Thank you for your help! -A _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
