Infopoint HTML Viewer ===================== The Infopoint HTML Viewer is a light-weight, full screen viewer for web pages. As the name indicates, it is primarily focused on machines whose one and only purpose it is to display web pages (like network monitors, stock charts, or news). Screenshots ----------- How does it work? ----------------- The software is built on [XULRunner](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner), the same framework Mozilla uses for Firefox and Thunderbird. It starts on system boot and simply displays a borderless window with the full size of the display, containing the contents of the web page you configured. Due to its XULRunner ancestry, the Infopoint HTML Viewer can show any content that your good old Firefox can show, including `http://`, `ftp://` and `file://` URLs, (X)HTML with (or without) JavaScript and CSS, XML/XSL documents, pictures and plain text. Cool, what do I have to do? --------------------------- * Get a machine with a network connection and a big display * Install a fresh [Debian](http://debian.org/distrib) system on it (“base” package set is totally sufficient) * Add my Debian repository (instructions [[here|projects/wilhelm-gym-repo]]) * Install the Infopoint HTML Viewer: `aptitude install infopoint-html` * Configure the URL you want to display: edit `/etc/default/infopoint-html` and change the `URL` option. Also be sure to set `AUTOSTART="yes"`. * `/etc/init.d/infopoint-html start`, or simply reboot. * Voilà! Resources --------- TODO: add License information * Source and issue tracker can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/rohieb/infopoint-html). Feel free to fork :-) * Flattr this