[K12OSN] Setting the default homepage on client browsers

[Petre Scheie]

Oh, we like really basic questions; makes us all feel smart and useful. ;-)

I haven't done it, but I think you need to modify the 
/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/chrome/en-US.jar file.  It's a zipped file and it contains a 
bunch of directories and files, so copy it to /tmp, unzip it, and then modify

browser-region/region.properties:homePageDefault=file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
and
browser-region/region.properties:browser.startup.homepage=http://www.google.com

so they point to the page you want.  Then zip the files and directories back into a new 
en-US.jar file, copy the original that's in /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.6/chrome to a safe 
place (in case something goes wrong here), put the new en-US.jar file into that 
directory, and try it out.

I found info about doing the above at 
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/f/topic-3-14-8700-0.html and 
http://www.litwiller.net/kiosk_browser/ was also helpful.  Good luck.

Petre

Mark Goodridge wrote:
> I'm trying not to flood the list with a lot of really basic questions, 
> but I'm new here and the on-line documentation I've found so far doesn't 
> get into all the nooks and crannies I want to explore
> 
> So I'm limiting myself to one really basic question per day.
> 
> And here's today's question.
> 
> Just got my first K12LTSP lab connected to the Internet (no big deal - a 
> five foot patch cord was all it took). Now I want to configure the 
> server so that all the client browsers start with a default home page 
> that I select.
> 
> Any suggestions, please.
>