Difference between revisions of "Web Kiosk CentOS 7"

Latest revision as of 12:43, 18 May 2022

Purpose

Boot into Chrome Kiosk mode and display a web page for digital signage.

Setup

Packages

A fresh install of CentOS 7 minimal. Please note the following

x11 server did not install with the group install of Xfce, so it was installed separately.
^[1]Keyboard and mouse did not work out the box, and I had to install the evdev drivers.

Base Packages

yum -y update
yum -y install epel-release
yum makecache
yum -y install chromium  wget zstd xorg-x11-xinit NetworkManager-wifi

XFCE

yum -y group install Xfce
yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-evdev xorg-x11-server-Xorg

OpenBox (Preferred)

^[2]

yum install -y openbox xorg-x11-drv-libinput xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-xinit libev

Unclutter

Install unclutter^[3]^[4], this is useful for getting rid of the mouse pointer when not in use.
NOTE: I ran into issues downloading from archlinux, quick and dirty google search had me run across a git repo.^[5]

Repo method

This has not been fully tested and may contain bad code.

yum install -y git libev-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel libXi-devel asciidoc 
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
git clone https://github.com/Airblader/unclutter-xfixes && cd unclutter-xfixes
mkdir /usr/share/licenses/unclutter/
make
make install

Arch method

wget -O unclutter.tar.zst --content-disposition --max-redirect=5 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unclutter/download/
zstd -d unclutter.tar.zst -o unclutter.tar
tar -xf unclutter.tar
mv usr/bin/unclutter /usr/bin/unclutter
rm -rf usr

TTY1 Autologin

TTY Config

Now create the auto-login process.

useradd publicuser
rm /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service
cp /lib/systemd/system/getty@.service /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service
sed -i -e "s/\/sbin\/agetty/\0 --autologin publicuser/" /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service
ln -s /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service

cat << EOF >>/home/publicuser/.bash_profile
if [[ -z \$DISPLAY ]] && [[ \$(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then # Check if we have a display and we're on TTY1
startx
else
echo "Please contact the help desk and provide the following"
echo "IP : "
echo "Hostname : $hostname"
fi
EOF

Auto Start Window Manager

Choose which one you want, startxfce4 or openbox-session.

cat << EOF>>/home/publicuser/.xinitrc
exec openbox-session
EOF

Reboot and you should see the desktop start up. If it does not troubleshoot.

Configure Chromium Auto-Start

XFCE

^[6]^[7]

cat << EOF>>/etc/xdg/autostart/kiosk.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Kiosk
GenericName=program
Comment=LobbyKiosk
Exec=chromium-browser --noerrdialogs --kiosk http://siteurl.tld
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/program.jpg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
EOF

OpenBox

mkdir -p /home/publicuser/.config/openbox

cat << EOF > /home/publicuser/.config/openbox/autostart
/usr/bin/xset -dpms s off s noblank &
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/publicuser --noerrdialogs --kiosk https://site.tld/webpage &
/usr/bin/unclutter &
EOF

Configure Power Settings and Disable Mouse Pointer

NOTE : This is configured for xfce. Another set of instructions will follow for openbox.

We want to prevent the system from going to sleep, blanking the screen, loading the screen saver^[8], or showing the pointer on the screen.
One issue I am having is understanding the best method for exporting the display. I am too used to working in bash and not with a gui. The following export does not work, but the display settings appear to still work.
Initially the xset commands were getting ignored by xfce power management. In order to get around this I had to use xfconf-query^[9] to make things stick

Create the script

cat << EOF>>/home/publicuser/power.sh
#!/bin/sh
sleep 10
export DISPLAY=$(who | grep -E "publicuser pts\/[0-9]" | grep -Eo "\(:[0-9][.]?[0-9]?\)" | sed 's/(//; s/)//')
xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/dpms-enabled -s false
/usr/bin/unclutter -grab
EOF

chmod +x /home/publicuser/power.sh
sed -i 's/<\/property>/\ \ <property\ name=\"blank-on-ac\"\ type=\"int\"\ value=\"0\"\/>\n&/g' /home/publicuser/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml

Create the auto-launch of the script.

cat << EOF>>/etc/xdg/autostart/power.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=powersettings
GenericName=program3
Comment=DisablePower
Exec=/home/publicuser/power.sh
Icon=/usr/share/pixmaps/program.jpg
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
EOF

Reload Chromium via CRON

Ran into an issue with flaky wifi and Chromium not reloading the page during a gateway timeout. Add a cron job for publicuser with the following

@hourly DISPLAY=:0 /home/publicuser/restart.sh

Create the restart script at /home/publicuser/restart.sh

#!/bin/bash
killall chromium-browser
sleep 1
/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/publicuser --noerrdialogs --kiosk https://site.tld/webpage &

Mark executable

chmod u+x /home/publicuser/restart.sh

[1] ttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225780

[2] ttp://xinerama.blogspot.com/2018/09/installing-openbox-on-centos-75.html

[3] ttps://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unclutter/

[4] ttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/660613/how-do-you-hide-the-mouse-pointer-under-linux-x11

[5] ttps://ostechnix.com/auto-hide-mouse-pointer-using-unclutter-after-a-certain-time/#:~:text=Auto%20Hide%20Mouse%20Pointer%20Using%20Unclutter%20After%20A%20Certain%20Time%20In%20Linux&text=If%20the%20mouse%20cursor%20has,after%205%20seconds%20by%20default.

[6] ttps://www.danpurdy.co.uk/web-development/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen-tutorial/

[7] ttps://superuser.com/questions/461035/disable-google-chrome-session-restore-functionality

[8] ttps://superuser.com/questions/644804/disable-screensaver-screen-blank-via-command-line

[9] ttps://askubuntu.com/questions/407287/change-xfce4-power-manager-option-from-terminal

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@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 *x11 server did not install with the group install of Xfce, so it was installed separately.
 *<ref>https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=225780</ref>Keyboard and mouse did not work out the box, and I had to install the evdev drivers.
+====Base Packages====
 <pre>
 yum -y update
 yum -y install epel-release
 yum makecache
-yum -y install chromium  wget zstd
+yum -y install chromium  wget zstd xorg-x11-xinit NetworkManager-wifi
-yum -y group install Xfce
 </pre>
-====XFCE=====
+====XFCE====
 <pre>
 yum -y group install Xfce
-yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-evdev nxorg-x11-server-Xorg
+yum -y install xorg-x11-drv-evdev xorg-x11-server-Xorg
 </pre>
-====OpenBox====
+====OpenBox (Preferred)====
 <ref>http://xinerama.blogspot.com/2018/09/installing-openbox-on-centos-75.html</ref>
 <pre>
+yum install -y openbox xorg-x11-drv-libinput xorg-x11-server-utils xorg-x11-xinit libev
 </pre>
+====Unclutter====
 *Install unclutter<ref>https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unclutter/</ref><ref>https://stackoverflow.com/questions/660613/how-do-you-hide-the-mouse-pointer-under-linux-x11</ref>, this is useful for getting rid of the mouse pointer when not in use.
 *NOTE: I ran into issues downloading from archlinux, quick and dirty google search had me run across a git repo.<ref>https://ostechnix.com/auto-hide-mouse-pointer-using-unclutter-after-a-certain-time/#:~:text=Auto%20Hide%20Mouse%20Pointer%20Using%20Unclutter%20After%20A%20Certain%20Time%20In%20Linux&text=If%20the%20mouse%20cursor%20has,after%205%20seconds%20by%20default.</ref>
-*Repo method: This has not been fully tested and may contain bad code.
+=====Repo method=====
+This has not been fully tested and may contain bad code.
 <pre>
 yum install -y git libev-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel libXi-devel asciidoc
@@ Line 36: / Line 40: @@
 make install
 </pre>
-*Arch method:
+=====Arch method=====
 <pre>
 wget -O unclutter.tar.zst --content-disposition --max-redirect=5 https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/unclutter/download/
@@ Line 46: / Line 50: @@
 ===TTY1 Autologin===
+====TTY Config====
 Now create the auto-login process.
 <pre>
@@ Line 63: / Line 68: @@
 fi
 EOF
+</pre>
+====Auto Start Window Manager====
+*Choose which one you want, startxfce4 or openbox-session.
+<pre>
 cat << EOF>>/home/publicuser/.xinitrc
-exec startxfce4
+exec openbox-session
 EOF
-reboot
 </pre>
-After the reboot, you should see the desktop start up. If it does not troubleshoot.
+Reboot and you should see the desktop start up. If it does not troubleshoot.
-===Configure Chromium===
+===Configure Chromium Auto-Start===
-====Auto-start====
+====XFCE====
 <ref>https://www.danpurdy.co.uk/web-development/raspberry-pi-kiosk-screen-tutorial/</ref><ref>https://superuser.com/questions/461035/disable-google-chrome-session-restore-functionality</ref>
 <pre>
@@ Line 91: / Line 97: @@
 </pre>
-====Homepage====
+====OpenBox====
-*WIP : Does not work as-is.
-*For now you run this after chromium creates it's directories.
 <pre>
-sed -i s'|start.fedoraproject.org|yoursite.tld|g' /home/publicuser/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences
+mkdir -p /home/publicuser/.config/openbox
+cat << EOF > /home/publicuser/.config/openbox/autostart
+/usr/bin/xset -dpms s off s noblank &
+/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/publicuser --noerrdialogs --kiosk https://site.tld/webpage &
+/usr/bin/unclutter &
+EOF
 </pre>
 ===Configure Power Settings and Disable Mouse Pointer===
+*<b>NOTE :</b> This is configured for xfce. Another set of instructions will follow for openbox.
 We want to prevent the system from going to sleep, blanking the screen, loading the screen saver<ref>https://superuser.com/questions/644804/disable-screensaver-screen-blank-via-command-line</ref>, or showing the pointer on the screen.
 <br>
@@ Line 133: / Line 144: @@
 EOF
 </pre>
+===Reload Chromium via CRON===
-===Setup WordPess===
+Ran into an issue with flaky wifi and Chromium not reloading the page during a gateway timeout. Add a cron job for publicuser with the following
-But first I download and extract the files needed over ssh.
+<pre>
+@hourly DISPLAY=:0 /home/publicuser/restart.sh
+</pre>
+Create the restart script at /home/publicuser/restart.sh
 <pre>
-wget https://wordpress.org/latest.zip
+#!/bin/bash
-unzip latest.zip
+killall chromium-browser
-mv wordpress /var/www/html/
+sleep 1
-find /var/www/html/wordpress/ -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
+/usr/bin/chromium-browser --user-data-dir=/home/publicuser --noerrdialogs --kiosk https://site.tld/webpage &
-find /var/www/html/wordpress/ -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
-mkdir /var/www/html/wordpress/logs
-chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html/wordpress
 </pre>
-*Setup a vhost to load the site.
+Mark executable
 <pre>
-cat << EOF >>/etc/httpd/conf.d/vhost.conf
+chmod u+x /home/publicuser/restart.sh
-<VirtualHost *:80>
-ServerName localhost
-DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/wordpress"
-</VirtualHost>
-EOF
 </pre>
-*Up until now I have been setting this up remotely, however I will now need to start using the ol' keyboard and mouse so I can configure using localhost. Follow the standard wordpress setup<ref>https://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress#Famous_5-Minute_Installation</ref>.

Difference between revisions of "Web Kiosk CentOS 7"

Latest revision as of 12:43, 18 May 2022

Contents

Purpose

Setup

Packages

Base Packages

XFCE

OpenBox (Preferred)

Unclutter

Repo method

Arch method

TTY1 Autologin

TTY Config

Auto Start Window Manager

Configure Chromium Auto-Start

XFCE

OpenBox

Configure Power Settings and Disable Mouse Pointer

Reload Chromium via CRON

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