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Topic: Firefox autostart

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machaon

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Posted: June 28 2006,18:32

Hi all,

I would like FireFox to load automatcally at X startup in fullscreen, on a website like http://myotherpc/.

Can U help me ?

thx all.

Machaon

mikshaw

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Posted: June 28 2006,18:51

To autostart applications in X, add them to /home/dsl/.xinitrc. Look at the "dillo" line for an example.

Starting firefox fullscreen is a different issue. It supposedly has "-width" and "-height" commandline parameters, but i've never seen them actually work, at least not in fluxbox. It also does not have a non-interactive "fullscreen" feature (it requires pushing F11 after firefox loads). Fluxbox stable does not have the ability to force a window to be fullscreen either, so it would require changing your window manager to something that will. I'm not sure if it can be done with JWM.

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Hillel

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Posted: July 06 2006,14:28

Try the Rkiosk Firefox extension. It works great. I use it for a few users who have to use a web app in the middle of a point-of-sale application and export it to them through NX. You should be warned, modifying it to behave a little differently than its defaults can be a pain.

kerry

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Posted: July 06 2006,22:00

also take a look here -> http://kioskcd.com/
it's built on DSL and you can run it from cd so it won't screw up your system.

keithw

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Posted: Aug. 18 2006,18:01

Did anyone manage to get firefox to open from .xinitrc? Whatever I try, I get error messages on boot and X fails to start.

The line I put in .xinitrc was a copy of the existing dillo line:

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/usr/local/bin/firefox /path/to/file &>/dev/null &

The errors I got were something like:

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xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2)
xinit: No such process (errno 3)

Can anyone give me any clues?

Keith