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# Kiosk HOWTO

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

v1.0, October 1999

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.

## 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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