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Kiosk HOWTO

Gene Wilburn, ITS Dept, Royal Ontario Museum <genew@rom.on.ca>

v1.0, October 1999


This document provides a guide for setting up a WWW-based kiosk using Linux, X11R6, FVWM2, Netscape Navigator 4.X, and a customized trackball. It outlines the methods that were used to create a public kiosk for the Hands On Biodiversity Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

1. Introduction

2. Overview

3. Building a Kiosk Environment

4. Initializing the Kiosk

5. Other Considerations

6. Future Directions


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