Porteus

Posted: **08 Nov 2016, 03:23**

We display progress (Andon) at our factory via a webpage and have a few TVs that display this status. (Digital signage) With all the iPads we have given out and people using their phones, Emoji are getting used more often. So I was asked to render Emoji in color. Emoji DemoThis requires Firefox 46 or newer and porteus-kiosk is using Firefox 45 ESR. So I took a shot at modules, one to replace the stock Firefox and a second to make changes to the distribution.

Firefox Light was at version 48 and even smaller than ESR! Audio worked on vbox, but was garbled (ran too fast) over HDMI to TV so I also did the current Firefox.

c484bf7a031fa7a83e3a8073d713d97f 49M 002-firefox50.xzm
f7f36a062370be9dbb05188f609c3a0f 3.7M ff50libs.xzm

2107d72ad038b64e48cdbf3cf720828b 26M 002-firefox48L.xzm
87f584482bd6d749e10042b972ae8613 4.0K ffLightLinks.xzm
ba24472566831c714d2207b8c342338d 4.1M codec.xzm
e8e4d1202b6d9406a87722d7e50594d8 268K squashfs.xzm

if you want to try it, add these two lines to your kiosk_config:

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root_password=toor
debug=yes

reboot the kiosk
Note the BOOTING DEVICE and IP_number
remove the two lines from kiosk_config
ssh root@IP_number

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mount `sed -ne 's/boot_dev=//p' /opt/scripts/extras` /mnt
mkdir iso
cp -a /mnt/* iso
cd iso/xzm
wget mc.rob.com/porteus/002-firefox50.xzm -O 002-firefox.xzm
wget mc.rob.com/porteus/ff50libs.xzm

Optionally add audio and mksquashfs/unsquashfs

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wget mc.rob.com/porteus/codec.xzm   
wget mc.rob.com/porteus/squashfs.xzm

Update the boot device:

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cd ..
echo | ./make_iso.sh ; cd ..
isohybrid -u Porteus-Kiosk.iso
dd if=Porteus-Kiosk.iso of=/dev/sda
reboot

once the squashfs.xzm module is loaded you can do tricks like

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unsquashfs 003-settings.xzm
echo > squashfs-root/usr/lib64/HelloWorld
mksquashfs squashfs-root new.xzm -comp xz -b 256K -Xbcj x86 -noappend
mv new.xzm 003-settings.xzm
rm -rf squashfs-root

Thanks for an outstanding distro!

Posted: **08 Nov 2016, 09:15**

Hello Rob,

I see you have reached an expert level in kiosk modifications

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unsquashfs 003-settings.xzm
echo > squashfs-root/usr/lib64/HelloWorld
mksquashfs squashfs-root new.xzm -comp xz -b 256K -Xbcj x86 -noappend
mv new.xzm 003-settings.xzm
rm -rf squashfs-root

One advice: its better to keep all customization in a separate module - easier to remember what was changed and upgrading to new kiosk version is as easy as moving custom xzm to new ISO (with a bit of luck things will work ootb).

Thank you.

Porteus

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