From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 10:26:49 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] Browser in kiosk mode In-Reply-To: <569F7F6A.4060906@gmail.com> References: <569F7F6A.4060906@gmail.com> Message-ID: <569F8B19.5010304@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 20/01/16 09:36, 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? > Thanks! > Marco Hi. You can do that with any browser using squid in transparent mode with a whitelist, that way you're not tied to any particular solution (plugin, addon). Regarding which browser to use that will probably depend on which features you want/need and which graphics platform you want to run it on (example: X11, pure framebuffer, EGL, so on). Regards.