Installing Chrome/Chromium on Centos7- kiosk mode

Question

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 doesnt support Debian and I am quite out of options. If anyone could help it would be great.

Answer 1

I would probably use something like the following:

1. Enable selinux enforcing
   Edit /etc/selinux/config to enforcing mode

2. Install xguest and desktop(gui)

   yum -y groupinstall basic-desktop desktop-platform x11 fonts
yum -y install xguest chromium xorg-x11-xinit-session

3. Create .xsession in xguest homedir

4. Exec chromium in kiosk mode in .xsession

   cat << EOF > ~xguest/.xsession
#!/bin/sh
exec chromium --kiosk
EOF
chmod +x ~xguest/.xsession

5. Autologin with xguest Edit the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file and make sure that the [daemon] section in the file specifies the following:

   [daemon]
AutomaticLoginEnable=True
AutomaticLogin=xguest

6. Set the system to boot into graphical mode

   systemctl set-default graphical.target

7. Some hardening
   yum remove nautilus gnome-panel

This is mostly from memory, test and modify as you see fit.

Answer 2

$ sudo yum install google-chrome

Then open chrome settings and set your certain page to be opened on entry - you can also set chrome to open every time you boot up using the command:

mate-session-properties

For running mate and:

gnome-session-properties

For those running Gnome, click ADD and then find the startup for chrome and make it startup each time you login.