Simple kiosk box by Debian(or Ubuntu?)

Only use xorg, openbox & firefox

1. Install a minimal Debian

Minimal Debian

2. Install xorg, openbox.

xinit package is smaller than xorg package, but xinit does not have default x-term, if you don’t need x-term or want to use your favorit terminal, install xinit instead of xorg.

root@mini:~# apt update && apt upgrade
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root@mini:~# apt install -y xorg openbox

3. Check the openbox.

It shows a black screen. When you click the right mouse button, then pop-up menu will pop up. However, all menu does not work except, “Terminal emulator”, “Restart” and “Exit”, because we did not install the menu application.

Visit https://wiki.debian.org/Openbox, you can get a lot of infomation about “openbox”

root@mini:~# startx

4. Remove all ttyN except tty1 for openbox.

When you type “CTRL+ALT+F1 ~ F6”, the virtual terminals(VT) show up. We don’t need extra VTs, so we will remove tty[2 ~6], F2 ~ F6, which are default VTs. Exit the open box by clicking the “Exit”.

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