[Buildroot] Browser in kiosk mode

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 20 12:55:31 UTC 2016


Marco,

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 13:36:58 +0100, Marco Trapanese wrote:
> Hi, I'm asking some hints about which is the best solution in buildroot 
> to have a browser in kiosk mode with a whitelist.
> I mean, a full-screen browser, with no way to change the settings, and a 
> list of allowable addresses.
> 
> Firefox has a couple of plugins to achieve that but it's not included 
> (yet?) in buildroot. I found this:
> 
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2012-September/058314.html
> 
> I guess it won't be included soon, because the patches are there since 
> 2012. Anyway I will try to use them on the latest version.
> 
> Do you recommend other packages already provided in the current 
> buildroot version which I could use?

We have a package called qt-webkit-kiosk, maybe this would match what
you are looking for?

Thomas
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