[Kde-kiosk] Newbie stumper -- preventing users from exiting a kisok browser

[Darrell Eifert]

Thanks for the ideas.  I briefly looked at r-kiosk, but our catalog is 
set up in such a way that within a book citation, users can click on 
active links to various external databases and other catalogs.  With no 
"Back" "Forward" or "Home" buttons, the user has no way to return to our 
on-line catalog.  Do you know if there is a way to modify r-kiosk so 
that these buttons are available??

Tony Crockford wrote:
> Darrell Eifert wrote:
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>> Hi all --
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>> I'm trying to set up a simple KDE based kiosk for our library on-line 
>> catalog using Kubuntu Dapper.  Although I have minimal experience with 
>> Linux, it seems from my reading that a KDE environment would be ideal 
>> for this sort of thing.  With that in mind, I would like to see the 
>> following things happen at boot time:
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>> 1) automatically log-in to a restricted or basic user account
>> 2) automatically run Konqueror or Firefox and point to our on-line 
>> catalog home page - our catalog is a plain-vanilla set of HTML pages.
>> 3) only allow access to the on-line catalog and a handful of selected 
>> database sites
>> 4) prevent any other application from running
>> 5) prevent users from exiting the catalog, while enabling a staff 
>> shut-down via password
>>
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>> Thanks to all who respond.
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> We're using Firefox with the r-kiosk extension.
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> Alt-f4 will allow you to exit firefox, but we've got keyboards without 
> F keys for normal use and plan on a USB keyboard for staff use to 
> close or restart.
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> we've built the web application with kiosk use in mind so it has easy 
> navigation and a meta refresh that takes it back to the home page 
> after 3 minutes inactivity (via an interim page in case someone is 
> just slow...)
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> you might find this useful:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/616/
> Auto Reset Browser :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software
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> R-Kiosk:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/1659/
> R-kiosk :: Mozilla Add-ons :: Add Features to Mozilla Software
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> similar keyboards:
> http://www.cyberd.co.uk/hardware/kioskkbd.htm
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> hth
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