On Nov 13, Stew Smith wrote:
> > I'm working on making a kiosk system which will run in a coffee shop as a
> > demo. I've defined a user under which to run the processes, though I only
> > need the system, X, and Netscape running for my purposes.
> > What I'd like to do is have the system boot up and start X immediately as
> my
> > user. The user's environment will then start up the window manager and
> > Netscape.
> > I'm having trouble effecting this scenario, though. I've tried putting
> > "/bin/login user" into the /etc/inittab file and that will get
> > user logged in with a shell, but I cannot start X because there is no tty
> assigned to
>
>
> JWZ has an article up about how he is doing this in his nightclub. He is
> doing the same thing you describe, and I think it can help you out.
>
> http://www.jwz.org/kiosk/
Thanks for this link, Stew! It's exceptionally useful!
-Michael
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