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A kiosk is a computer terminal available to the public that provides specific information and applications.

A kiosk is a computer terminal available to the public that provides specific information and applications.

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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 possible, or any other custom distro? I just want…
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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 system... I was wondering, is there a way that I…
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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 into a script to run a kiosk, it will detect if…
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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 to be able only to shutdown. However, there is…
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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-kiosk account after a reboot. I've tried setting…
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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 exec --no-startup-id i3-msg 'workspace 1 ; move…
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How to setup Kiosk type functionality in Linux mint cinnamon?

I'm using Linux Mint Cinnamon. I want to setup the computer to act as a kiosk, where the user can only really interact with Firefox in full screen mode. What is the easiest way to lock the machine down? Does dconf or gconf work with Cinnamon? Should…
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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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openSUSE Linux Kiosk Setup

Working on setting up a kiosk with openSUSE, where users can only view a single webpage. Obviously open to any Linux distro. Also would prefer to use Gnome. I'm wanting only Firefox to be available (which will be displaying a local webpage), a link…
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Block keyboard on debian

I would like to block the keyboard for a kiosk-based application implemented on Linux. The keyboard could be blocked with "nohup cat /dev/tty0" on some Linux distributions, but it's not working on Debian. How can I resolve this?
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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 the Exec of one systemd service early in boot to…
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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 wrap my program as a systemd service to utilize…
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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 display digital clock on a panel. It's clear that I…
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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 server flags e.g. /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/15-no-vt.conf -…
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Create a kiosk with tmux

How can I configure tmux such that the user in a session can not do anything other than interact with the programs in it and detach from the session? I've bound a key to detach, but need a way to disable the prefix key in order to prevent the user…
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