Thanks for this, I was going to use fluxbox to do this but metacity
seems good too.
If you need a launcher, wbar ( http://code.google.com/p/wbar ) is easy
to install and customize
Also, as it relates to firefox, you can do a lot with
firefox/thunderbird loadcustom.js
firefox install dir/defaults/pref/loadcustom.js
// tell firefox to load customized config file
pref("general.config.obscure_value", 0);
pref("general.config.filename", "custom.cfg");
firefox install dir/custom.cfg
// Lock specific preferences in Firefox so that users cannot edit them
lockPref("app.update.enabled", false);
lockPref("browser.startup.homepage", "http://intranet";);
pref("network.proxy.autoconfig_url", "http://intranet/proxy.pac";);
pref("network.proxy.type", 2);
I'm not sure if you can set screen size/position though.
Karl
On 07/26/2011 10:06 AM, Craig Bender wrote:
Ever publish a kiosk app like firefox or a terminal for
troubleshooting? Hate that you don't have windowing manager due to
pop-unders or modal mozilla messages?
Did you know you can just start metacity and not have to resort to
using something like the locked down JDS app?
Just start metacity before what ever your kiosk app calls and then
kill it after.
Once you do the above, you might find cases where a minimized app
seems to have disappeared. It hasn't but on some clients (like iPad)
it's a bit tricky to do an alt-tab. Best to just remove the minimize
button all together from the running instance of metacity.
Example of both tips together:
#!/bin/sh
# Get rid of the minimize button on the windowing manager
/usr/bin/gconftool-2 \
--type string \
--set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout menu:maximize,close
# Start a window manager so firefox doesn't get stuck with modal
windows under the browser
/usr/bin/metacity &
# Start Firefox
/opt/firefox/firefox
# Cleanup the window manager so Kiosk exits after firefox closes
pkill -9 $USER metacity
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