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Reply With Quotelocalzuk (27th April 2009)
I have a need to boot direct to an application, rather than running a DM (GDM or KDM etc...) and then a display manager or window manager.
Instead, I want to boot straight into a citrix session, or a firefox session (depending on the client).
And I don't feel comfortable using thinstation for these roles either.
I know what I want to do can be done, as I have seen it done in various places, I just need nudging in the right direction, as my Google-Foo is not working today.
it might be a automatic login in GDM then a login script that opens a program
Without a window manager, you won't get Useful Things like a title bar, resize handles, etc, etc.
Those things are unnecessary for a full screen web browser... In fact I don't want themOriginally Posted by powdarrmonkey
It is definitely done without a WM - Lancaster Uni does it with their library systems used for browsing their catalog for example. They boot straight into Firefox, no DM, no WM etc...
I found this:
HowTo: Create a boot-from-CD browser kiosk with Firefox and Linux - InfoDabble
Its for a Live OS (That can be copied onto a HDD anyway) unless it absolutely has to be ubuntu
May I ask why you don't want to use thinstation?
Because it won't work nicely with the machines and I am finding it hard to get a response on how to fix the issue... Not much use to me if I can't get X to work on the machines at all
Can you point me to the thread on EduGeek where you posted the issue? I might be able to help.Because it won't work nicely with the machines and I am finding it hard to get a response on how to fix the issue... Not much use to me if I can't get X to work on the machines at all
localzuk (27th April 2009)
Thinstation and X Server problem
I'll post an update there too.
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