Re: [Thinstation-general] Having some user interaction + shell scripting before Citrix Receiver is lauched from replimenu

[Mike E. <thi...@gm...>]

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:29 PM, InterRob <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> How would you "plug in" (and configure) the appropriate plugin? I have no
> experience doing so (have no clue about the plugin architecture of FF).
> Would be nice to have some sort of an outline!

You have to do next to nothing: add these to build.conf:
package firefox
package kiosk
package icewm

and make firefox your SESSION_0.

Mike


> Cheerz,
> Rob
>
> 2011/8/24 Mike Eriksen <thi...@gm...>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Narrf <stu...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> >> Good kiosks ended with FF 3.0.
>> > So as it is only a Citrix access terminal, connecting to a Citrix WI,
>> > just
>> > use FF3.0. It isn't like you'll be browsing the web with it. The package
>> > is
>> > still available on Sourceforge.
>>
>> That would also be my recommendation. FF-3.0 is still available in its
>> most recent version from thinstation.org. Just edit the download URL
>> in build.conf to:
>> param firefoxurl
>> http://thinstation.org/download/firefox/firefox-3.0.19.tar.bz2
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> > On 24/08/11 17:34, Mike Eriksen wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:22 PM, Narrf<stu...@gm...>
>> >>  wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Hi Rob,
>> >>>  >  1. Kiosk'ed Firefox: I found it quite troublesome to run Firefox
>> >>> in
>> >>>  >  "true" kioskmode, robustly: no menu's, addressbar, title bar etc
>> >>> etc;
>> >>>  >  just a full-screen content frame with a HTML form for username +
>> >>>  >  password. Also, I wish to have the smallest possible bootimage; it
>> >>>  >  appears to me to be quite an overkill to have a full-fledged
>> >>> browser
>> >>>  >  onboard, just for the sake of logging on.
>> >>>
>> >>> It has been a while since I built a Kiosk'ed FF Thinstation image, but
>> >>> don't recall having issues. IIRC just used FF and the Kiosk Addon.
>> >>
>> >> [cut]
>> >>
>> >> It isn't that rosy. There isn't a single decent kiosk add-on for
>> >> Firefox these days as far as I know. Good kiosks ended with FF 3.0. I
>> >> have not been able to find a good one since then. There are plenty of
>> >> crappy ones.
>> >>
>> >> Mike
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
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>> - a light, full featured linux based thin client OS
>>
>
>



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- a light, full featured linux based thin client OS