Let's have fun doing OpenBSD kiosks! As explained in a recent article, a kiosk is a computer dedicated to display things or to be used interactively without being able to escape the current program.
I modified the script surf-display
which run the web browser surf
in full screen and run various commands to sanitize the environment to prevent users to escape surf to make it compatible with OpenBSD.
=> surf-display-openbsd project page | surf-display project page
It's rather simple
git clone https://tildegit.org/solene/surf-display-openbsd
install -m 555 surf-display-openbsd/bin/surf-display /usr/local/bin/
~/.xsession
to use /usr/local/bin/surf-display
as a window managerYou will also need dependencies:
pkg_add surf wmctrl blackbox xdotool unclutter
Now, when you log in your user, surf
will be started automatically, and you can't escape it, so you will need to switch to a TTY if you want to disable it, or through ssh.
The configuration is relatively simple for a single screen setup. Edit the file /etc/surf-display
and put the URL you want to display as the value of DEFAULT_WWW_URI=
, this file will be loaded by surf-display
when it runs, otherwise OpenBSD website will be displayed.
It's still a bit rough for OpenBSD, I'd like to add xprintidle to automatically restart the session if the user has been inactive, but it's working really well already!
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