You will want to click the Advanced Settings button in the lower right side of the window and choose the User Privileges tab. To set up the account set a basic password for now and click ok. Once there click add, type your password to get past the authentication window, and input a generic username (I used Scholar). To do this click System, then highlight Administration, and click Users and Groups. This way the Web Kiosk cannot be compromised as easily. You will want a restricted user for the end users to use that does not have sudo access and cannot change system settings. Once this is done close the Terminal window. In the terminal window enter “sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras -y”. The best way I’ve found to do this is similar to adding xscreensaver. If you will be using flash you will need to install the plugin for it. The asterisk at the end allows aptitude to install all of the packages that start with xscreensav, thus installing all the additional screensavers available. From there enter the command “sudo apt-get install xscreensav* -y” without the quotation marks. I like to do this from the command line so click Applications, highlight Accessories, and click Terminal. Instead the best option for this is to install the xscreensaver packages. They were not great at running from a script. To remedy this, we tried to get the default screensavers to come up. They are not supposed to be able to do this, but they were.
On our systems we found that even LCD monitors got burnt in after time. Step 1: Add XScreensaver & Ubuntu Restricted Extras At work, we have the frequent need for a machine that will allow workers to access the internet without having full access to a computer. This is where we combined Ubuntu (a fast operating system) with Chromium-browser (one of the fastest browsers).įollow the steps in this Instructable to set up Ubuntu, and Chromium if you haven’t already.