By changing the Xsession file you can start a kiosk-style machine that starts a single X11 application.
\nOn Debian you would change the file \/etc\/X11\/Xsession.d\/99×11-common_start. In stock form there is a line that reads:<\/p>\n
exec $STARTUP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Change that to read :<\/p>\n
exec firefox javascript:%20resizeTo(1024,768)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
and your machine will boot directly into Firefox at a screen size of 1024×768. Of course you can change the size to any resolution you like. You can probably also add more javascript as well and force opening a web page and other stuff. Combine this with Bastille and an autologin of a non-privileged user and you’ll have a very convenient (and cheap) kiosk.<\/p>\n
On KLIXs which Mandriva based, the default XSession file is at \/etc\/X11\/Xsession, and in default it could handle multiple wm from twm through kde, so it’s not hard to find the coresponding line :<\/p>\n
exec \/bin\/sh -c “$DESKTOP”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Change that to read :<\/p>\n
exec firefox javascript:%20resizeTo(1024,768)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On some other Linux distros the Xsession file may actually be a single file rather than a directory of files. A simple search such as:<\/p>\n
find \/etc\/X11 -iname ‘Xsession*’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
should find it for you. The actual line to change may differ also but should be near the end and be an exec statement or a function call that invokes exec.<\/p>\n
Hope this helps you Brian … \ud83d\ude00 Cheers and keep on faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By changing the Xsession file you can start a kiosk-style machine that starts a single X11 application. On Debian you would change the file \/etc\/X11\/Xsession.d\/99×11-common_start. In stock form there is a line that reads: exec $STARTUP Change that to read : exec firefox javascript:%20resizeTo(1024,768) and your machine will boot directly into Firefox at a screen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jfdesignnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}