Journal oldstrat's Journal: Kiosk 1
I've been working on and off for months now on a Kiosk system for a local church.
In the last few weeks I've made fantastic forward progress, and in some areas, reverse progress in others.
I've got the filtering end and wireless issues cleared up (http://www.censornet.com/) was a breeze once I gave up on using just one Network card and went to two.
The problem now centers on the Kiosk itself, an NCR pentium II 233mhz with 3GB hard drive and 64MB RAM.
Yes it's a bantam weight machine but they got a fair number of them for free, and based on thin client objectives it really should be enough.
The problem I am having is the Kiosk part of the machine. I only want to provide access to Communicator and absolutely nothing else, there are solutions out on the web that use Navigator but Navigator does not work very well in the contemporary web page environment.
KDE3+ is supposed to have a Kiosk mode/features but documentation is poor and or non-existent.
I'll struggle on, but at some point I fear I'll have to punt and put up NT4WS with Communicator as the shell (yuck!!). Anybody have any ideas?
In the last few weeks I've made fantastic forward progress, and in some areas, reverse progress in others.
I've got the filtering end and wireless issues cleared up (http://www.censornet.com/) was a breeze once I gave up on using just one Network card and went to two.
The problem now centers on the Kiosk itself, an NCR pentium II 233mhz with 3GB hard drive and 64MB RAM.
Yes it's a bantam weight machine but they got a fair number of them for free, and based on thin client objectives it really should be enough.
The problem I am having is the Kiosk part of the machine. I only want to provide access to Communicator and absolutely nothing else, there are solutions out on the web that use Navigator but Navigator does not work very well in the contemporary web page environment.
KDE3+ is supposed to have a Kiosk mode/features but documentation is poor and or non-existent.
I'll struggle on, but at some point I fear I'll have to punt and put up NT4WS with Communicator as the shell (yuck!!). Anybody have any ideas?
Kiosk (Score:1)
Solved enough of the problems for initial rollout. Not using KDE or Gnome just twm.
Using the modified twm from here, but not the rest of the project.
http://kiosk.mozdev.org/