Snaps to develop a Web kiosk on Ubuntu Core (using Wayland)

[saviq]

And the new tutorials are up: http://bit.ly/secure-kiosk.

[KristijanZic]

chromium-mir-kiosk resets the home page every resettime=n from the boot or from the first inactivity. Is that an expected behavior?

I think a better way would be to reset the homepage just once after every inactivity period that followed activity period of user interacting with the kiosk.

[KristijanZic]

One other suggestion would be to include the parameters to hide the vertical and horizontal chromium scrollbars, it really damages the whole touch based UX.

[KristijanZic]

Setting multiple homepages gives out this error:

$ snap set chromium-mir-kiosk url=["http://www.canonical.com","https://www.ubuntu.com"]
error: cannot perform the following tasks:
- Run configure hook of "chromium-mir-kiosk" snap (run hook "configure": Error: URL "[http://www.canonical.com,https://www.ubuntu.com]" needs to start with http:// or https://)

[saviq]

Hi @KristijanZic thanks for the feedback!

We’ve missed the single quotes in the tutorial, the array needs to be passed to the browser pristine:

$ snap set chromium-mir-kiosk url='["http://www.canonical.com","https://www.ubuntu.com"]'

As for your suggestions, think you could propose changes to the bazaar repo? Note this snap is a proof of concept, not a production-grade solution.

[desquare]

Hi,

I wonder how to rotate the chromium-mir-kiosk so that it follows the settings for mir-kiosk as described in this thread: Display Configuration for mir-kiosk
When setting the mir-kiosk to portrait the chromium-mir-kiosk canvas is rotated as well, however it just keeps it landscape format in 90 degrees. So it won’t get a proper portrait rendering.
Any thoughts on this?

Cheers!

[greyback]

Hi @desquare,
I’m aware of the bug at least. I suspect the problem is the i3 WM, which isn’t aware of the rotation happening, so fails to resize chromium. XWayland seems to be doing the right thing anyway. I’ve not yet found time to investigate further, but it’s on my list.
-G

[KristijanZic]

The bug tracker doesn’t seem to be set up or am I missing something?

[saviq]

If you mean for chromium-mir-kiosk, yes, that’s on purpose. Again, it’s not a project that we’re willing to support, not a production grade solution, rather just a demo of what could be achieved given some work.

[dot-tobias]

@greyback After I’ve written a lengthy reply, the forum tells me that I cannot post more than 2 links and only mention 2 people. Since I don’t want to strip potentially useful links from my post, I put it on the snapcraft.io forum where I am no longer a new user