On Tue Oct 2 15:15 , 'John H. Robinson, IV' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>Ralph wrote: >> On Tue Oct 2 7:47 , Stewart Stremler [EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >> >> >So if you put [firefox] in kiosk mode, she'd be fine? :) >> >> Probably. But I have no idea how to do that. > >http://jadoba.net/PLUG/kiosks/howto/ >has a writeup about it (Deban specific, but applicable to other >distributions) > >What you want is probably more like: >http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/wp/firefox-fullscreen-kiosk-machine/ > >I found a kiosk mode pluggin here: >https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1659 I'll check these out. Thanks. > >This is just a start, and you may not need or want to lock down the >kiosk as tightly as these are implying. I did not read fully to see how >they got around the shift-alt-f1 to get to a console issue. If I were >doing it, I would likely run a console on the *serial* port, and have X >start an x session that started only firefox on Virtual Console 1, with >no other gettys running at all. This all sounds good to me except perhaps disabling shift-alt-f1 and the serial port console. I'm guessing that you have to have something like a Wyse terminal to plug in thru a null modem cable? And I *like* having shift-alt-f1 (thru f6) available for logging in for root work. I realize that the external terminal would help me against a display problem. But I have no terminal. I suppose I could use her Vista laptop with a null modem cable (assuming it even has a serial port), but I have barely touched Vista and would not know how to go about doing that. It might be easier to use the router connection between the two machines. The desktop (with fc7) is hard wired to the router whereas the laptop (Vista) is wireless to the router. She doesn't care about storing anything on the machine, so I could go a number of ways. I could set up a kiosk mode live CD, or do similar on HDD for faster bootup. If on HDD, all partitions could be mounted read only, except for any that *need* to be writable. But in the case of a live CD only version, any writable partitions would have to be on a RAM drive, which could also be used by the HDD version. All she wants is an internet machine that responds quickly, can print, and maybe scan. She does online banking, email, and online searches for information. She prints occasionally, and may eventually want to learn how to scan. If she is interested in doing anything else later, then I will deal with that. But she loves to keep things simple. She also likes to have things convenient. And she is one of those who don't realize that some of the convenient things are *very* complex. But once she realizes that something is complex, her _usual_ reaction is to wince, and say to forget all that and just keep it simple. > >The console on the serial port is only for diagnostics, or plugging in a >terminal while the system is up for system level admn type stuff. A >proper kiosk would have all services shut off, so no getting in via ssh. I would not mind setting it up such that I could use her laptop (Vista) to connect in. If possible, I could even do it via USB. I could even throw Knoppix into the laptop to have _real_ tools to work with. But I don't have a terminal. ---- Msg sent via CWNet - http://www.cwnet.com/ -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
