This is a minimal WebKit based browser. It's intended use is to display a single web resource non-interactively, while being highly portable, especially to the arm11 architecture (used for the Raspberry Pi), and supporting Javascript and HTML5 Websockets for dynamic content updates.
apt-get install libwebkit-dev # OR: yum install webkitgtk-devel
make
No special steps are required for installation. Just execute kiosk-browser.
This program was designed to be started via inittab on boot like this:
1:2345:respawn:/usr/bin/startx -e /usr/bin/browser http://10.0.0.5/zfs/monitor tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
kiosk-browser <URL>
This will launch the browser in fullscreen mode and load the resource at URL.
URL can be anything that WebKit supports, including file://-URLs for local webpages and documents.
Omitting URL shows the default page, this README.
The following keybindings exist:
F5for reloading the current pageF11for toggling fullscreen
These actions are also implemented as signal handlers:
HUPfor reloadUSR1for fullscreen toggle