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This is running on a Linux (CentOS) box. It sounds like follow me
printing might be an easier solution but leaves me with one issue.
Having to create each printer in gnome will wind up with each kiosk
showing all the available printers, and I don't want them to be able to
see that. Unless there's some way in firefox to print directly and skip
the "print dialogue box". Then I would implement follow me and it'd be
much easier. If you know have the new files for follow me printing let
me know. Also a way to remove follow me printing if need be (even just
some kind of "delete these files" would be helpful too).
Thank you for all your help, i'm not sure why but your name rings a
bell, you might have assisted me on the first problem I had a few years
ago with launching different profiles based of the Location field in the
kiosk info.
On 8/23/2010 12:59 PM, Craig Bender wrote:
The "best way" to do prototypes is to make your kiosk script do a
firefox -CreateProfile, then cp your "custom" files, then start firefox
The reason for the -CreateProfile is that it won't result in any "user
specific" inforatiom contained in the .mozilla info. Reg.dat and other
files seem to sporadically contain path information for the user it was
created as with different versions of firefox.
Another think you should do for "all users" is the customization of
localstore.rdf so it launches at the full width of the screen. This is
an easy change that prevents at least one click for users.
Did you say this was Linux or Solaris? If Linux and CUPS (perhaps
Solaris and CUPS, but most times under Solaris I just use plain lp) you
can implement the follow me but add a twist of lpoptions -d <printer> to
your kiosk script. Then you don't have to worry about editing files per
DTU or copying per DTU.
I've also just enhanced one of the follow me scripts so that it prompts
the "deployer" for the default printer if for this DTU if there isn't
one listed, then asks for the root password and will update the SRDS
other info field. (For the Sun Ray kiosks that will be all over Oracle
Open World).
Let me know if you, or anyone for that matter, are interested in these
changes and I can throw it up on the Think Thin blog.
Brian Imbriani wrote:
prototypes sounds like a better option, as many kiosks will run the
same firefox binary but need different printers depending on their
location. I have read up on follow-me printing, though I'm not sure
that will serve my purposes. This method allows me to show the same
printer to everyone "Postcript/Default" but allow them to print to
different locations.
Thanks! Will let you guys know how it goes.
On 8/23/2010 11:38 AM, Craig Bender wrote:
Prototypes or change the default files in <instal>/firefox/default/pref
Brian Imbriani wrote:
Hello all, lovely Monday for us on the east coast :) </sarcasm>
My Sun-Ray's are running in kiosk mode, starting up Firefox only. I
used to change prefs.js and user.js to change the PostScript/Default
print command to something unique to that device.
The problem I'm having with my new set up, is the home directories are
being deleted each time a session is killed (albeit their being
created also but you'll see my issue in a second). When you run
firefox for the first time, it will create a .mozilla directory but FF
is already running so I can't change the prefs.js file without
re-starting FF, but once I close FF, it will kill the session...hope
you all are following lol.
So, I guess lets start off with, any way to stop the deletion of the
home directories so I can make prefs.js in each directory and then let
FF load that each time?
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