[K12OSN] library kiosks

[Bill Kendrick]

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Tim Litwiller wrote:
> I want to setup several logins for a public area of the library.
> I would like these to autologon to an account that opens a browser to 
> the card catalog web page.
> I would also like the machine to log off and then back in if the browser 
> window is closed.

Someone in my LUG is talking about library kiosks right now. :^)
I pointed him to a doc I started writing (but haven't finished polishing)
which discusses using IceWM and KDE 3.1 under Debian Woody to create
a web-browser-only (and calculator, since it's useful!) kiosk for a coffee
shop.

  http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/bill/misc/kiosk/

(YMMV!)

-bill!