System Info

• Dell Dimension 8200
• Intel Pentium 4 CPU @2.0GHz
• 1 GB (4 x 256) Kingston DDR RAM
• Seagate 20GB HDD
• Purchased from varsity 2003/08/??

After update, Opera kiosk doesn't work right, full screen won't cover the launcher and top menu
Solution: Download Opera 11.64 and remove Opera 12.01

Login as Kiosk
System Settings -> Displays, change the resolution to 1024x768
Stop using xsession login, because the resolution can't be changed to 1024x768 with this method.

sudo mv /usr/share/xsessions/kiosk.desktop /usr/share/xsessions/kiosk.desktop.old
sudo mv /usr/share/xsessions/opera.sh /home/kiosk/.

ssh clabreg
sudo vi /home/kiosk/.opera/operaprefs.ini
change Home URL=https://secure.phas.ubc.ca/clabreg/

- Install Ubuntu 11.10 and all updates 
- Change default login session to be ubuntu-2d
  sudo vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
  change the line user-session=ubuntu to user-session=ubuntu-2d
- Install xscreensaver:
  sudo apt-get install xscreensav* -y
- Install flashplugin:
  sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras -y
- Go to opera website get debian package for Ubuntu and install it:
  sudo dpkg -i opera*.deb
- Create a new standard user kiosk , set a radom password, and enable automatic login

- Login kiosk user, run
  xscreensaver-demo
  answer with yes/ok to disable screen saver
- Open Opera
  Choose preferences
    Startup: Start with home page
    Home page: https://secure.phas.ubc.ca/clabreg
    Uncheck Enable Password Manager on Forms tab
    Set History Addresses to 0, unchck Remember content on visited pages on Advanced tab
  Right click on search bar Customize > Remove from toolbar
  Right click on toolbar Customize > Appearance, only enable Main Bar
  Right click and remove all the buttons except Home
- Login as phasadmin
 sudo vim /usr/share/xsessions/kiosk.desktop
 [Desktop Entry]
 Encoding=UTF-8
 Name=kiosk
 Comment=Opera Kiosk Mode
 Exec=/usr/share/xsessions/opera.sh
 Type=Application

 sudo vim /usr/share/xsessions/opera.sh
 #!/bin/bash
 xscreensaver -nosplash &
 #while true; do opera; sleep 5s; done
 while true; do opera --k --kioskbuttons --kioskresetstation --nochangebuttons --nochangefullscreen --nocontextmenu --nodownload --nokeys --nomail --nomaillinks --nomenu --nominmaxbuttons --noprint --nosave --nosplash --geometry 1280x1024+0+0; sleep 5s; done
* Edit your opera window size (--geometry 1024x768+0+0)

 sudo chmod 755 /usr/share/xsessions/opera.sh

 sudo vim /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
 user-session=kiosk
 Add this line, to disable guest account:
 allow-guest=false

 * For remote access you can install ssh server
 sudo apt-get install openssh-server

 * For security reasons you can install ubuntu firewall
 sudo apt-get install gufw
 Alt+F2 gufw, enable firewall, disable incoming trafic, open 22. tcp port for ssh.

 sudo passwd root
 su
 crontab -e
 0 1 * * * /sbin/reboot
 sudo reboot