Hi Lars, Thanks for taking the time to respond and help a new guy out, much appreciated.
I must admit I was completely bamboozled for a while on this one, even after reading your advice...it also seems that neither the PDF/HTML help docs nor man pages offer any handy examples or guides about how to roll things like prototypes, unless I am missing something. However after several hours tinkering I managed to acheive the following, I'd be interested to know if you think it's an okay solution. It has created one problem though which I'd be equally interested to get tips on the cause of. (My original post is at the bottom of the email). 1) Trying to install two instances of Firefox was dumb on my part, this was before I knew anything about how FF profiles work (I have hitherto used Safari pretty much exclusively). So I now source my Kiosk session executable from /usr/lib/firefox/firefox 2) I've run FF profile manager and created a profile for my usual local server logon, and one for my Kiosk sessions. I have created the Kiosk profile at: /etc/opt/SUNWkio/prototypes/jds3/.mozilla/firefox/FFKiosk 3) Using # firefox -P FFKiosk, I installed the BMA kiosk plugins as found on the the Think Thin blog, as well as a theme which alters the default FF buttons etc to something a bit more suitable for kiosk-like appearance. 4) In the SRSS Kiosk admin page, I enter the following arguments to the FF executable: -profile "/var/opt/SUNWkio/home/*/.mozilla/firefox/FFKiosk" -kiosk (the -kiosk switch launches FF with the BMA kiosk extension enabled) My SunRay 170 picks up these parameters and everything looks as it should. Can you see any problems with this approach thus far? The only observable prob I have now is that even though the session type is set to AUTO, this does not behave as expected, rather it's behaving as USER, in that I have to manually launch FF from the JDS launch button. Curiously, if I warm restart SRSS, then when the DTU comes back to life it will launch the session automatically. If I however subsequently exit the session or terminate it on the server, it will return to behaving as USER session. Hope this makes sense, any help would be great ! :) Cheers, Dave > 2) Similarly, in Firefox I have enabled a kiosk plugin following most of > the steps at http://blogs.sun.com/ThinkThin/entry/kiosk_mode_browser > (very useful blog!) > > I want to be able to install some Firefox themes which alter the look and > feel of the navigation buttons etc, how do I apply this to the kiosk browser > session? > > Eg. I have installed Firefox 2 at /opt/firefox and want to make this a > completely > separate instance to the existing Firefox install I run locally on the > machine. > I thought I could launch /opt/firefox/firefox logged on locally on the server, > install the themes and what-not and hey presto, but these don't show up > in the kiosk session. > > I figured running SRSS in a zone would be a easy solution, until I found out > this was not supported > Similar to above you need to put a prepared .mozilla/firefox directory ( template ) in /etc/opt/SUNWkio/prototypes/jds3 complete with all the extensions and Plugins you want the kiosk user to have. The reason your additional stuff dont show up is because the kiosk user has a virgin .mozilla/firefox directory everytime the kiosk is regenerated. //Lars _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
