using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk
Hendrik Hasenbein
hhasenbe at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de
Sat Sep 6 01:54:35 PDT 2003
Matt Hartzell wrote:
> I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible
> internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like to
> run from this type of setup.
>
> Does anyone have any experience using a setup like this? Can any one
> point me toward relevant documents?
If you only need to show a website and no other programs should be
displayed in parallel you might want to try a combination of
ratpoison+browser of your choice. Depending on your browser you can even
omit ratpoison and just start the browser as the xsession (should have
tabbed browsing then).
In effect you get a fullscreen browser with your app as homepage. More
browser windows can be openend and switched between them with free
configurable shortcuts (i recommend alt+tab). If the browser is closed
you end the xsession and depending on configuration a new session might
open or show a loginscreen.
Hendrik
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