Philipp Schmidt
2018-09-10 09:13:17 UTC
Hello Everybody,
I am stuck with setting a kiosk system on an ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which was
installed using the webinstaller. I have installed xorg, openbox and
chromium as well. Since I would like to create a kiosk system: The
browser should start as soon as system has finished booting and as a
non-root user.
When I start the system and log in as the »kioskuser« and run startx (or
the whole kiosk launcher script) everything works as is should. But when
I try to run the whole thing on start, using systemd, or from an
ssh-connected terminal a Desktop starts when I run it as root, but it
fails when I try to run it as the »kioskuser«. I have already posed some
questions on askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com which include a
lot of details about the used scripts/files and log messages.
question 1
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467517/start-chromium-on-startup-using-systemd>
question 2
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467981/start-x-and-browser-within-openbox-on-start>
question 3
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/1073862/configure-x-to-be-started-by-non-root-user>
question 4
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/1073889/xwrapper-config-ignored-on-18-04>
To sum up: Basically *the whole setup is working*, X starts, the blank
Desktop appears and even the browser starts as it should, but only if
everything is launched from a non-ssh-connected logged in user. So the
problem here is the *how to launch. *I am really lost, this is my first
project which involves X- and Desktop-Setup, so I am really running out
of ideas, since there are so many changes in Ubuntu and X within the
different version.
Thanks in Ahead for any kind of help!
Best philipp
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I am stuck with setting a kiosk system on an ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which was
installed using the webinstaller. I have installed xorg, openbox and
chromium as well. Since I would like to create a kiosk system: The
browser should start as soon as system has finished booting and as a
non-root user.
When I start the system and log in as the »kioskuser« and run startx (or
the whole kiosk launcher script) everything works as is should. But when
I try to run the whole thing on start, using systemd, or from an
ssh-connected terminal a Desktop starts when I run it as root, but it
fails when I try to run it as the »kioskuser«. I have already posed some
questions on askubuntu.com and unix.stackexchange.com which include a
lot of details about the used scripts/files and log messages.
question 1
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467517/start-chromium-on-startup-using-systemd>
question 2
<https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/467981/start-x-and-browser-within-openbox-on-start>
question 3
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/1073862/configure-x-to-be-started-by-non-root-user>
question 4
<https://askubuntu.com/questions/1073889/xwrapper-config-ignored-on-18-04>
To sum up: Basically *the whole setup is working*, X starts, the blank
Desktop appears and even the browser starts as it should, but only if
everything is launched from a non-ssh-connected logged in user. So the
problem here is the *how to launch. *I am really lost, this is my first
project which involves X- and Desktop-Setup, so I am really running out
of ideas, since there are so many changes in Ubuntu and X within the
different version.
Thanks in Ahead for any kind of help!
Best philipp
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