Comments on: Building Small, Cheap, Dedicated Catalog Stations: Do-It-Yourself Raspberry Pi OPACS https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/building-small-cheap-dedicated-catalog-stations-do-it-yourself-rasberry-pi-opacs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=building-small-cheap-dedicated-catalog-stations-do-it-yourself-rasberry-pi-opacs A Publication of the Public Library Association Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:38:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.5 By: Dan Lerch https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/building-small-cheap-dedicated-catalog-stations-do-it-yourself-rasberry-pi-opacs/#comment-494692 Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:38:47 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=5952#comment-494692 This article inspired me to give this a shot. I’ve implemented my own using firefox mKiosk https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mkiosk/ and disabled a few function keys in ~/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml. I’m not sure how durable this solution will be but it was definitely fun. I’m also curious to try a thumb drive solution (running android, win 10 ect).

]]> By: Dan https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/building-small-cheap-dedicated-catalog-stations-do-it-yourself-rasberry-pi-opacs/#comment-469190 Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:47:08 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=5952#comment-469190 This is a good start, but in a general public library setting where there are kids hammering on the keyboards and people occasionally trying to deliberaly break out to the file system.

The main problem with Chromium kiosk mode that I’ve found is that any windows or tabs that spawn (via shift or control click, or other means) usually arent bound by kiosk mode restrictions. You can exploit this to get at the filesystem, among other things. I’ve been able to mitigate some of this with xmodmap, Javascript and some other tricks, but not completely.

I’d be interested to hear how this has held up in your setting since you posted this.

– Dan

]]> By: Vicki https://publiclibrariesonline.org/2015/05/building-small-cheap-dedicated-catalog-stations-do-it-yourself-rasberry-pi-opacs/#comment-420550 Mon, 15 Jun 2015 17:03:16 +0000 http://publiclibrariesonline.org/?p=5952#comment-420550 Great article! My boss did this in our law library & it works great.

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