Questions tagged [kiosk]
Kiosk is a mode an application can enter to lock down the user's ability to interact with specific parts of the interface.
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Always allow access to webcam in Edge kiosk mode
I am using my Surface Pro with Windows 10 Pro as a display and digital signage for my customers.
I have set up the device with assigned access (according to this guide https://docs.microsoft.com/en-...
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How to run a unity-built after Computer is turned on
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User turns on Computer and Unity-built runs automatically.
Upon system start and thereafter Unity start, User only sees the maximized gameview of unity. No windows Taskbar, steamVR window, nor ...
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Linux Kiosk Mode for Specified Programs
I am using Linux Mint and I want to only be able to run certain apps on it. All the posts that I have found so far are about locking it down to a browser which isn't what I want as I need to be able ...
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Windows 10 Kiosk Mode in Edge blank screen after inactivity
I have setup a Windows 10 kiosk where Edge goes to a predefined website. When I was configuring it, I had left it in my office and every day it seemed to be fine. Now that I deployed it, I find ...
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Is it possible to launch Chrome in kiosk mode in Windows 10 without showing the desktop? [duplicate]
I cannot find a reliable solution to start chrome (in kiosk mode) in Windows 10 at system startup, without showing the desktop environment.
More precisely, i CAN start Chrome in kiosk mode, but it ...
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How to change the Partial Cut Width of a Zebra KR203 printer?
i need to change the Partial Cut Width so the printer doesn't cut all the paper when finishing to print something, i tried to do this in the printer properties but all the options are locked and i don'...
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Capture console.log to a file?
I'm running a Chrome kiosk and want to retain and aggregate logs. The Chrome docs say that you can use --enable-logging --v=1 and it will log the to the chrome_debug.log file. Doing this creates a log,...
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Virtual Keyboard in a chrome kiosk app?
I just created a Chrome Kiosk app following this doc.
Now, I'd like to be able to add a virtual keyboard that shows on/off automatically when (un)focusing on input field.
The app is meant to be used ...
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Possible to have duplicate Google Chrome installed?
It is possible to have 2 duplicate Google Chrome install in a machine?
The reason why I need 2 duplicate Google Chrome is because 1 Chrome Application is just for the normal, whereas the other one ...
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Windows 10 Kiosk Mode - User is immediately logged out
I am trying to setup a Kiosk account running a sideloaded app. This worked by using the "Assigned Access" mode before version 1803. Version 1803 broke it, and the kiosk user was immediately logged out ...
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Kiosk Browser in Windows 10 Enterprise LTSB 2016 (v.1607)
I bought an all-in-one monitor with Windows IOT, I want to build a browser kiosk locked in one page.
Is it possibile with this version of Windows?
I did not find Edge and moreover I did not find any ...
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Is there any way to remotely control a surface tablet running Windows 10 in kiosk mode
We are planning to put a surface tablet at a client site, and put it in kiosk mode using Windows 10 Assigned Access, and that part works well.
Edited: This is a Windows 10 Home version, so there is ...
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Restore Windows 10 Partition on every boot to previously defined state
we, a non profit youth center, are running a view windows 10 Pro computers on which the kids can play and research.
Because of the limited time of the volunteers to maintain these computers, we are ...
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How to set Google Chrome to automatically open up and in full screen
I have Dell Windows tablet (I think the model is the Venue 11 Pro) and when the tablet is turned on I want it to automatically open a specific web page (lets say cnn.com for example) using Google ...
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Chromium-Browser Kiosk Mode
I am running a Raspberry Pi with Chromium-Browser in Kiosk mode. The purpose is to make available an ADP clock-in/clock-out Kiosk for employees in our building's entrance.
@/usr/bin/chromium-browser -...
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Firefox Quantum - Kiosk Mode
I currently use this method to emulate chrome's kiosk-mode in Firefox Quantum on Windows 10:
Install Firefox Quantum
Install AddOn AutoFullscreen
in Firefox's address-bar, type about:config and set ...
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Chrome kiosk: can auto updates and Safe Browsing downloads be disabled or blocked?
I are running Chrome in kiosk mode in custom linux environment, and have IoT devices that run on cellular. I am noticing that Chrome periodically downloads approximately 3MB of data an hour, updating ...
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Windows Kiosk mode no virtual keyboard after killing explorer.exe
I am having a problem when trying to use a Windows 10 tablet as a Kiosk and after I kill the explorer.exe the keyboard doesn't appear.
I am having a major problem here because killing explorer.exe is ...
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Lock down Win10 Kiosk but allow access for IT technicians?
I'm implementing a kiosk on Surface Pro 4 tablets that is locked down for public consumption but I haven't figured out a robust method to allow technicians to access the device for troubleshooting and ...
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How to configure a listening-only NTP client?
I'm creating an advertisement display, based on RaspberryPi (no real time clock present) and piCore, which is busybox-based tinycorelinux. It will be behind a firewall, and even within its own network ...
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Chrome kiosk create infinite window
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I'm trying to configure Windows 10 to boot directly on chrome in kiosk mode so the user can only see the webpage.
So I've followed those steps and launch Chrome in kiosk mode with the ...
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Chrome Flag Paramaters - Touch to hold creates X drop down Button in kiosk mode / full screen mode . bat
Working on a custom kiosk, users should have no way of exiting browser without a keyboard. I just noticed that when you touch and hold the screen (or swipe from the top of the screen) a circle x drops ...
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Touch Keyboard on Windows 10 Logon Screen
We are using Windows 10 on a kiosk system. Normally, the user interacts with the system via touch-screen, but a keyboard is available if required.
We have enabled "Automatically show the touch ...
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Fullscreen chromium through dual/multiple displays
I have a LUBUNTU 16.04 system, and I've been trying to make chromium browser go fullscreen on a dual display setup without success. It just goes fullscreen on a single display.
It must also be done ...
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Connect to WIFI from Chrome while in kiosk mode
I have a small setup, where a windows tablet starts up and automatically loads a webpage in Chrome, in kiosk mode. But the webpage requires WIFI to work (Ethernet cable is not an option), is there ...
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Windows 10 Kiosk Mode and msg.exe
We implemented Kiosk mode on a couple PCs and are now unable to send the PC a message using msg.exe. The msg.exe works when the PC is not in Kiosk mode.
This is what we did to implement Kiosk Mode:
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Disable Chrome's page translation on the commandline
I build a dual monitor dashboard with Google Chrome (V. 60.0.3112.78) under CentOS 7. Everything is working with the exception that I am not able to disable Chrome's translation feature via the ...
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How to allow touch support on multiple monitors simultaneously?
I made a ReactJS app which will run in kiosk mode in a museum, on touch screen monitors. That is, the app will run in the Chrome browser, full screen, with right click and other gesture events ...
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Switch any program to kiosk mode
Sometimes friends or even unknown people visit me and we are doing something on my computer. I often find myself in the situation when I want to leave the computer but I don't completely trust the ...
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LaunchAgents: Launch App as root
I'm doing a kiosk app for osx. there was a previous version of this app working on OSX 10.8, but the computers got updated and now the app isn't working properly. i need to avoid user can kill the ...
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Windows 10 Professional - Disable Taskbar
I've been trying to do this a number of ways, I want to start up basically in kiosk mode for my home touch screen PC.
I'm using software that loads at startup, but is very old - it can't be made ...
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Hide everything before my app starts
For a kiosk computer (no keyboard, no mouse, only touch screen), I would like to hide everything before my app starts, or replace it by a custom logo. How can I do this?
Disable the display of BIOS ...
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OnScreen keyboard in Windows 10 IE kiosk mode
What we have:
Windows 10 Pro amd64 1607 all updates installed
for one user registry key HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\shell changed to C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\...
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How to disable select and copy contextmenu in Google Chrome kiosk mode?
I need to display an information website. The user should only be able to press buttons and use scrollbars through a touch screen.
The kiosk mode of Google Chrome fits this requirements pretty well.
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How to break out of Unity? Jail a user to a program
I am trying to setup a media center that I also want to be able to use for some other stuff. My idea was that I would just make it so that when the Media Center user logs in it just launches a program ...
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Windows 10 Kiosk mode - Assigned Access with startup scripts
Is it possible to run startup scripts that will run WAMP in the background and for instance start some other applications like Chrome with kiosk parameters?
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Can we make google chrome act as a kiosk browser with only one website access?
I am a fresh IT graduate and in my new job, I have to setup a kiosk system, with a normal PC but that needs to display only the HR website to employees for viewing vacation hours and requesting ...
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Don't require password on wakeup while explorer.exe is killed
I need to configure Windows 10 Kiosk Auto-login tablets that don't require a password when they go to sleep.
Right now, our tablets autologin on a local user, which kills explorer.exe at login and ...
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How to stop Windows from ever automatically logging off the current user?
I have several MS Surface Pro tablet PCs running Windows 10 Pro that are being used as time clocks. I do not want employees coming to work only to find that the time clock is sitting on a login screen....
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Automatic daylight savings adjustment: Where/How does Windows remember that it already did the time shift?
Does anyone know where Windows remembers the "actual state" of the daylight savings adjustment?
My problem is related to kiosk systems where the entire harddisk is 'write-protected'. (I am talking ...
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Windows 10 - how to disable windows auto update, while using deepfreeze?
We use deepfreeze, which is a software for cybercafe, public locations to allow the user to use the PC but on reboot it clean everything and goes back to our old stable setup.
Now that windows 10 ...
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How to have account auto logon after other user disconnects from RDP
I have a Windows 10 Pro machine set up as a kiosk. A domain account is set to auto-logon using SysInternals Autologon. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963905 When the machine powers ...
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How to skip shutdown of public linux (debain based) system?
I am running a program on a public computer and I want to avoid that other people may shut down it.
I do have the root password.
How to skip the shutdown using some commands?
I have zero idea of ...
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Where can I find a technical description of Chromium's "kiosk mode"?
I am trying to evaluate if Chromium's "kiosk mode", enabled via command-line argument, is suitable for my purposes.
Where can I find an accurate technical description of the effect of the --kiosk ...
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Kiosk mode and auto login and single application mode in CentOS
We have a machine running CentOS 7, GDM, KDE 11 (installed from CentOS DVD)
We have been struggling a few days with this issue, tried to search for a solution but unfortunately most of the material'...
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How to lockdown a computer for use in a public area?
So I live in an apartment complex with a few hundred people. There are two all-in-one windows 7 PCs in the lobby for residents to use. Oddly enough they keep mysteriously getting infected with viruses ...
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Google Chrome inactivity redirect
I have chrome opening in kiosk mode - I added the --kiosk flag to the chrome shortcut which works as expected.
We would now like to have the browser re-direct to www.MyDomain.com after x minutes of ...
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seting up some windows10 pro kiosks?
I have a few windows 10 PCs for student use. Previously, I had windows XP installed where I was using deepfreeze. Basically, students could use the pc, but if they encountered malicious software, ...
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Windows 8.1 or 10 for TV display of statistics
We want to display real-time business statistics (from a Google Chrome webpage) on big screens at my company's office, using Windows 8.1 computers connected to plasma screens. These computers are ...
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Internet Explorer 11 in a terminal (kiosk) with low resolution
We are currently using Porteus Kiosk (Linux) on our terminals. The terminal boots and starts with Firefox open on the default page (our client’s web address). Now we are considering switching to ...
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