Questions tagged [kiosk]
A kiosk is a computer terminal available to the public that provides specific information and applications.
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Set different permissions for the user and for the java application
I am writing a graphical java (javaFX) application which is a kind of shell over the operating system. I am currently using Java 8 (JDK corretto 8.402), Debian 12 and Xfce. The problem is that my Java ...
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Debian based system, only one gui program, nothing else
I would like to make a debian system where you can only open one GUI program at boot, no other graphical interface, no minimize, or any X apart from that program, is there a way to do it on debian if ...
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Linux Kiosk machine setup - any advice appreciated
I'm currently researching setting up a Linux kiosk machine. As part of my research I thought I'd ask around and hopefully get advice from someone with experience. I'm considering anything from ready-...
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How to disable touch screen right click in Wayfire/Wayland?
I've created a touch screen kiosk using a RPi 5 running the latest OS (eg. Bookworm + Wayfire). I'm trying to disable right-click events as they are super annoying for my use-case.
A right click ...
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Debian 12 kiosk as readonly
I have a Debian 12 kiosk. It runs one single flutter app fullscreen with X for ship diagnostic data.
It needs to boot fast (it does in 7secs) and is "shutdown" by power loss regularly.
fsck ...
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Need desktop environment for kiosk like profile that can only run certain programs
I have a need for an extremely locked down desktop environment that would have three profiles
School - Can only run Libreoffice and Firefox. When I say ONLY I mean ONLY - can't change any setting at ...
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How to prevent a user from closing a python program?
I have a python program and use Debian. I want the user to automatically login into a specific account and for the python program to be automatically launched. And after this happens, the user shouldn’...
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Looking to provide remote access to a single PC but *only* its web browser?
Essentially I would like to be able to navigate to some custom domain that I own, log in to some basic front end, and then have access via a Remote Access Tool to my Linux computer (which would only ...
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How to force onboard stay on top of full screen Okular in LXDE?
Whenever Okular is full screen, the on screen keyboard Onboard goes behind it.
How to pin onboard on top of full screen apps like Okular?
I am using Debian LXDE.
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Troubleshooting extremely shaky setup - Ubuntu kiosk with ubuntu-frame
I have a set of computers at work (running Ubuntu 20.04) that are used to host various containerized applications with Docker, as well as running kiosk screens using ubuntu-frame. To set up and ...
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Pulseaudio two outputs in one profile don't work proper
i want to output the sound on HDMI and DP.
To archiev this, i searched how to do it and found this: How to output unique audio to multiple ports/profiles of a PulseAudio card?
I followed the answer ...
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Running X Appplication Without Desktop Environment in full screen
I'm tryng to configure a Linux to work as a kiosk running google-earth only and
I'm just following a guide about how to run google-earth Without Desktop Environment that it would be perfect for me:
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How to lock a Linux/Debian/KDE system to one program (a password-protected kiosk mode for Kodi)?
I'd like to lock my Debian10/KDE system to one program and prevent any interaction of a user with anything beyond the always-on-top fullscreen program, making it impossible to shut down, to minimize, ...
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Display Sleep / Wake on Schedule
Is there some sort of display keep-awake command that could be scheduled?
I have a machine I'd like to run a dashboard display during certain hours without having to interact with it every day to wake ...
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Running a specific program when the system is idle, and terminating it on user input
I have a number of Ubuntu "Kiosk" systems that people can walk up to and use to access a specific website to enter specific information. As is, the screens go blank after 5 minutes of non-...
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How to disable VT console when running Ubuntun 20.04 under Wayland server
I am now running Ubuntu 20.04, and using server: Wayland. I have no idea how to disable virtual console switch under Wayland.
Under the X.org server adding this: Option "DontVTSwitch" &...
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Starting ffplay X-window without a window manager
I want what is essentially a kiosk, to display a video stream using ffplay, without a whole Desktop environment.
I started with minimal CentOS7, and installed xterm and X11, per this simple guide:
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file system requires manual fsck on boot
Our company is providing customers with a digital signage Kiosk Machine that is running Customized Ubuntu 20.04. Our customers sometimes report that the Kiosk Machine is not booting because they land ...
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How would I Open an Internally hosted Webpage and Login without User Input on LINUX?
I'm trying to add to my current lines of Code if possible to Continue to Open my webpage in Kiosk on Chromium during startup, which I've managed with the code below, however I'm trying to make a ...
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Is there a light-weight version of X?
I am setting up a computer as a an older tablet "PC".
It will run Debian and a single application, without any window manager. No Internet is needed, nor is remote access.
To ensure it runs ...
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How to seperately display different information on 10 different Linux computers?
Related to this question, I need a means to display information on various displays placed around the room. Each display has different information. Ideally, I would have one laptop setup in a corner ...
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Running a singular application on startup, fullscreened
I want to run a single application, specifically a Vulkan game, on Linux. I kind of want it to be like a kiosk, but not just for displaying information. The operating system's one use for me is to run ...
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Linux for simply one task: watch youtube
I have tested some Linux versions for my kid's laptop. Old Samsung notebook, Samsung N10.
I need do only one task: run youtube videos with no lag. Or setup an Android on it. I also tried RemiX-OS ...
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How to kill all open windows?
I want to close all windows appearing on my desktop. I've thought to do this through pkill, but I could only manage to kill them one at a time, which is not what I want. The end goal is to put this ...
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How can I create a “CLI Kiosk” before login?
I have a bash script that runs screen that displays various things like htop and some output from a MQTT server.
I currently have no GUI installed and this runs on the command line on Ubuntu Server. I ...
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How do I disable all login prompts, including on VT 1 on a systemd system
I'm running essentially an X-based kiosk program on an embedded Linux and I want to disable the ability to log-in under some configurations. I want to run some distro-nonspecific console commands in ...
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Running systemd service synchronously / in foreground
I would like to replace my Xsession with my custom program (kiosk-like setup), previously I was just setting STARTUP variable in my .xsessionrc file like:
STARTUP='/path/to/my/program'
Now I want to ...
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Need to auto-login after logout on ubuntu
I've set up a kiosk using Ubuntu 12.04, and I'd like to have it autologin after a user logs out or if the screen locks, in case someone manages to get back to lightdm or tries to login to the non-...
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Installing Chrome/Chromium on Centos7- kiosk mode
I am new on Centos7 and have some issues. I want to install chrome/chromium on centos7, make user autologin and open to specific webpage in kiosk mode. I did the same on Debian easily but my Intel Nuc ...
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Kiosk Mode - How do I get all files from a directory?
happy new year!
I have following problem:
I am using this shell script for the kiosk mode on my raspberry pi
\#!/bin/bash
xset s noblank
xset s off
xset -dpms
unclutter -idle 0.5 -root \&
sed -...
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Lubuntu Google Chrome not opening
Right now I have a kiosk apps set up on a mini PC with lubuntu 18.10. The apps run on Chrome. I create a command to autostart Chrome instance everytime the PC starts up.
But sometimes, Chrome doesn't ...
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Lubuntu 18.10 on NUC6CAYH as kiosk app forced shutdown every day is it okay?
im not sure this a the right place to ask but i'll try from here
So, i am using Lubuntu 18.10 for my Kiosk App on Intel NUC6CAYH, usually the app is running 24/7..but some request came for an event ...
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Logout from LXDE session after last application exits
Is there any way to automate the above?
Currently I have the following autostart file in ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart and would like LXDE to exit the session after chromium exits but don't know ...
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How to disable right click only on desktop and icons in XFCE4?
I am building a kiosk machine with Debian 9.8 and XFCE4.
Everything is done except disabling right click in Desktop.
Tried xmodmap -e 'pointer = 1 2 0 4 5 6 7 8 9';
however, it disabled right click ...
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Floating panel over fullscreen windows in tile WM
I want to create kiosk using GNU/Linux. I need to show GUI one application full screen.
I've found that ratpoison suits my needs. But I also want to allow user to see and change keyboard layout and ...
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Custom function to the power button (ubuntu 16.04)?
I develop a software, which is going to be run in the kiosk mode on ubuntu 16.04. For some reasons, the computer will not be shutdown very often, so I'd like to allow for restarting only the ...
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What to use for advanced kiosk mode that starts other programs with minimal Ui
What I want:
I want a kisok mode application that starts/runs a shell script that opens a vnc viewer. Also it needed to disable all key funktions like alt + f4 or alt + tab etc. Thats it.
What I ...
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Are there any current videostream-player-type 32-bit distros in 2019?
I have these thin clients that are not in use I think they’d do perfect for a security camera video wall—just feed them an RTSP/RTMP URL and be done, GUI not needed.
I’ve been lazily looking for ...
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How to block the xfce desktop right-click mouse menu
I have a Linux Mint 14 machine and want to child-proof it.
My main concern right now is the menu that appears when I right-click on any empty desktop space. I want to eliminate it from appearing.
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Configuring a LTSP kiosk mode to shutdown when a web browser closes
What i want is a client that logs in with a web browser full screen and when the user closes it the system shuts down or logs off the user.
So I've been trying to mount a PXEBOOT system for a while ...
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How to make my wallpaper to appear after autologin in lightdm
These are things I did
Inside [Seat:*] in
/etc/lighdm/lighdm.conf
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greeter-session=lightdm-gtk-greeter
autologin-user=pi
autologin-user-timout=0
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/etc/lighdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter
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How to strip a Linux system?
I've been building a Linux distro, and I've stripped the binaries, etc. The system won't use GCC or development tools, as it will be a Chrome kiosk, so it would greatly help if I could strip down the ...
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What is the script responsible to bring up Gnome graphic environment in Debian 9.3?
I am preparing a PC that will be used by a lot of people in the company I work for to access information on our local network through a specific software. The PC will have a Debian 9.3 with Gnome 3 ...
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Remove everything but browser from Porteus 32 bit
I have a task of creating kiosk 32 bit system. However Porteus kiosk 32 bit was abandoned by developers and include only old version of Firefox. Is it possible then to cut everything, but Firefox from ...
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How to disable logout (always shutdown instead) in xfce4?
I'm using XFCE on CentOS to make a kiosk. The only thing I have on the desktop is a panel on the top with some programs. It already auto-logins at boot and, at the end of the session, I want the user ...
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How to create a lite graphical ability for linux server? [closed]
I use an Arm-based board(nanopi-m1: http://wiki.friendlyarm.com/wiki/index.php/NanoPi_M1) and an Ubuntu-server ported for my board(armbian: https://www.armbian.com/nanopi-m1) with fbtft support on the ...
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i3wm: two monitors, one browser per monitor (dual head kiosk)
My goal make i3 start one browser per monitor on a dual monitor setup.
I can't find how to start a browser and move it to the target monitor.
I've dig through the doc and tried in ~/.i3/config
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Simple "kiosk" - StartX with one application says no protocol specified
My aim is to have a Ubuntu laptop which starts one application and the users can't use the mouse or keyboard.
First thing to do was find out the command to start the program.
This is this command.
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Opera, Firefox has no kiosk option like Chrome gives it openly?
While using Chrome kiosk mode, i have problem with openbox desktop, its not doing correct for some javascript rendering. So i wanted to test opera and firefox but both does not support kiosk at all ...
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How to configure kiosk with Wayland / Xorg?
Self - answered now, see below:
I am setting up a kiosk system with a browser. Now my manjaro system is updating and it seems that Xorg is replaced by Wayland. With Xorg it was clear I could use ...
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