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Kiosk HOWTO

Gene Wilburn, ITS Dept, Royal Ontario Museum <genew@rom.on.ca>

v1.0, October 1999

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This document provides a guide for setting up a WWW-based kiosk using Linux, X11R6, FVWM2, Netscape Navigator 4.X, and a customized trackball. It outlines the methods that were used to create a public kiosk for the Hands On Biodiversity Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

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1. Introduction

• 1.1 Copyright, license and terms of usage
• 1.2 Acknowledgements

2. Overview

3. Building a Kiosk Environment

• 3.1 FVWM2
• 3.2 Netscape Navigator
• 3.3 Overlay Masks for Navigator
• 3.4 /root/kiosk.xinitrc
• 3.5 /root/xkiosk

4. Initializing the Kiosk

• 4.1 /etc/inittab modifications
• 4.2 /etc/rc.d/rc.4/S99xkiosk runlevel script
• 4.3 Booting normally from the console

5. Other Considerations

• 5.1 Screensavers
• 5.2 Sound Files
• 5.3 Trackballs
• 5.4 Designing or modifying HTML pages for kiosks

6. Future Directions

• 6.1 Remote Kiosks
• 6.2 Touchscreens
• 6.3 Keyboards
• 6.4 Collaboration

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