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Title: A kiosk computer running OpenBSD |
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Author: Solène |
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Date: 11 October 2022 |
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Tags: openbsd |
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Description: In this article you will learn how to create kiosks |
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systems with OpenBSD |
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# Introduction |
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Let's have fun doing OpenBSD kiosks! As explained in a recent article, |
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a kiosk is a computer dedicated to display things or to be used |
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interactively without being able to escape the current program. |
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I modified the script `surf-display` which run the web browser `surf` |
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in full screen and run various commands to sanitize the environment to |
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prevent users to escape surf to make it compatible with OpenBSD. |
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surf-display-openbsd project page |
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surf-display project page |
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# Installation |
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It's rather simple |
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1. `git clone https://tildegit.org/solene/surf-display-openbsd` |
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2. `install -m 555 surf-display-openbsd/bin/surf-display |
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/usr/local/bin/` |
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3. edit `~/.xsession` to use `/usr/local/bin/surf-display` as a window |
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manager |
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You will also need dependencies: |
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pkg_add surf wmctrl blackbox xdotool unclutter |
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``` |
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Now, when you log in your user, `surf` will be started automatically, |
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and you can't escape it, so you will need to switch to a TTY if you |
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want to disable it, or through ssh. |
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# Configuration |
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The configuration is relatively simple for a single screen setup. Edit |
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the file `/etc/surf-display` and put the URL you want to display as the |
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value of `DEFAULT_WWW_URI=`, this file will be loaded by `surf-display` |
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when it runs, otherwise OpenBSD website will be displayed. |
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# Conclusion |
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It's still a bit rough for OpenBSD, I'd like to add xprintidle to |
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automatically restart the session if the user has been inactive, but |
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it's working really well already! |
