gutsy kiosk mode

[Reiner Schmid]

Hello Michael


> In my case, I do have a firewall. In order to get the browser to work, I 
> needed to use the firefox Edit->preferences->advanced->network->settings 
> gui to set my proxies. 

in Feisty kioskmode it was not necessary to change something in the setting s of firefox

> 
> However, I am having a problem that would make it difficult to set these 
> options in the image. I have been trying to modify the 
> /opt/ltsp-kiosk/home/kiosk/.xsession to start an xterminal instead of 
> firefox. You would need to do something similar to add command line 
> options to the firefox startup line (/usr/bin/firefox --fullscreen). 
> Unfortunately, despite all attempts to make these changes stick, my thin 
> client always comes up with a firefox browser indicating that the 
> thin-client image has not changed. 


The problem is the unionfs of gutsy, so you have to use the following command after each change of .xsession or of any other file in /opt/ltsp or /opt/ltsp-kiosk

sudo ltsp-update-image -b /opt/ltsp-kiosk





> 
> This is generally beyond what you probably want to do, but you may run 
> into the same problem if you try modifying the firefox command line. And 
> if you find a fix or if you don't run into it, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks
> Mike
> ---
> 
> Reiner Schmid wrote:
> > Hello Michael,
> > 
> > thanks for your help to build the kiosk mode. But there is still a
> problem
> > 
> > 
> >>I changed the line:
> >>
> >> chroot $ROOT mv /etc/rc2.d/K13gdm /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm
> >>to
> >>
> >> chroot $ROOT mv /etc/rc2.d/K30gdm /etc/rc2.d/S30gdm
> >>
> >>and rebuilt the kiosk. 
> > 
> > 
> > I did so. The messages
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > Warning: found port in use already
> > Info: raising nbdroot portnumber by one to be 2001
> > Info: updating inetd config
> > Info: updating PXE
> > Info: Installation erfolgreich [successful]abgeschlossen.
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > in /var/lib/tftboot/ltsp/i386/pxelinux.cfg/default 
> > DEFAULT vmlinuz ro initrd=initrd.img quiet splash nbdport=2001
> > ----------------------------------------------------------
> > The clients boot, then I can see the kiosk-firefox browser, but there is
> no connection/routing to the internet. 
> > But a ping from terminal server to a client is succesful.
> > For your information I use two network interfaces (one to my
> router-internet/ one to my clients)
> > 
> > I also try vlc instead of firefox to connect to a video stream which was
> sent from my server. No success, because no stream was received! 
> > 
> > There is no firewall.
> > 
> > Can you tell me the trick?
> > 
> > Reiner
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > 

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