{"id":538,"date":"2014-06-07T20:22:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T19:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/?page_id=538"},"modified":"2022-06-20T20:01:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T19:01:24","slug":"scientific-linux-and-centos-kiosk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/projects\/linux-scripts\/scientific-linux-and-centos-kiosk\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific Linux and CentOS KIOSK generator"},"content":{"rendered":"KIOSK generator for Scientific Linux and CentOS (versions 5, 6 and 7).<\/p>\n<p>Created using Scientific Linux. Wasn't made and never tested on different distros than SL\/CentOS\/EL!<\/p>\n<p>This script will install additional packages and applications and configure operating system to make it work in KIOSK mode after reboot. It will work with basic, clean install systems and with desktop already installed.<br \/>\nIt use GDM, Opera browser, flash, xinit-session. It make system boot into graphical mode, then automatically login to \"kiosk\" user which will start Opera web browser.<\/p>\n<p>You may configure few parameters inside script file (like if flash should be installed or not).<\/p>\n<p>Version 1.4 for i386 and x86_64 architectures.<\/p>\n<p>Download link: <a title=\"KIOSK script for SL and CentOS\" href=\"\/make-kiosk.sh\">http:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/make-kiosk.sh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Changelog:<br \/>\nv 1.4 &#8211; 14.01.2016<br \/>\nBrowser history and setting reset every reboot<br \/>\nAdd Matchbox Window Manager to handle fullscreen of browsers windows<br \/>\nDisable screen saver and blank screen<br \/>\nv 1.3 &#8211; 12.01.2016<br \/>\nAdded SL\/Centos 7 support<br \/>\nv 1.2 &#8211; 06.06.2014<br \/>\nAdded SL\/CentOS 5 support (for older computers with low RAM)<br \/>\nv 1.1 &#8211; 31.05.2014<br \/>\nNot released, no changes in code, tested on EL6 and Fedora 20<br \/>\nv 1.0 &#8211; 30.05.2014<br \/>\nFirst release, tested on Scientific Linux 6 and CentOS 6<\/p>\n<p>Future plans:<br \/>\n+ Add support for 5.x tree (done in v1.2)<br \/>\n+ Add support for 7.x tree (done in v1.3)<\/p>\n<p>+ Opera do not show license window (done in v1.3)<br \/>\n+ Less controll on Opera browser by user (done in v1.3)<br \/>\n+ Add flash support (done in v1.2)<br \/>\n+ Add configuration options for users (first options in v1.2)\n<input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"538\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIOSK generator for Scientific Linux and CentOS (versions 5, 6 and 7). Created using Scientific Linux. Wasn't made and never tested on different distros than SL\/CentOS\/EL! This script will install additional packages and applications and configure operating system to make it work in KIOSK mode after reboot. It will work with basic, clean install systems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/projects\/linux-scripts\/scientific-linux-and-centos-kiosk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Scientific Linux and CentOS KIOSK generator\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1179,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-538","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/538\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marcinwilk.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}