Making a webpage load at system startup

[ajred]

Hi there.
I'm looking to setup a kiosk like scrolling webpage. I'm able to make the full screen scrolling web page.
What I need to happen is, in the case of power outage, make the system automatically login without authentication. Also, I need my scrolling web page to load automatically when the system starts up. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

[philipacamaniac]

Sure, that's as easy as a writing a simple script that opens firefox with a fullscreen option. Then just add that script to your session startup (System -> Preferences -> Sessions).

Another way is to actually create a script that starts X without GNOME or KDE, but only the browser, or only a browser and a simple window manager like TWM.

It sounds like you're trying to create a public kiosk. You should check out
http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/

[Colonel Kilkenny]

Hi there.
I'm looking to setup a kiosk like scrolling webpage. I'm able to make the full screen scrolling web page.
What I need to happen is, in the case of power outage, make the system automatically login without authentication. Also, I need my scrolling web page to load automatically when the system starts up. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance

I suggest using Opera as a browser because it has very nice kiosk-mode built in.

Check out http://www.opera.com/support/mastering/kiosk/
Automatic login is easy and some sort of script to launch opera at the start should be also piece of cake.

[ajred]

Thanks for the responses, i'm gonna try and get this working today ! =)