This is a fullscreen Webkit based browser for kiosks and displays, with multi-monitor support.
To install you just need Python, PyGTK and PyWebkitGtk.
On Debian and Ubuntu, you just need to install :
sudo apt install python-webkit python-gtk2And clone this repository:
git clone https://github.com/thor27/multimonitor-browser.gitTo run, you just need to execute the browser.py with an URL as argument:
./browser.py http://github.com/If you have more than one monitor, you can run one URL for each monitor, for example:
./browser.py http://github.com/ http://www.python.orgRemember that you are locked in the hostname you called your script. For example, this will not work:
./browser.py http://www.github.com/It will print on terminal:
github.com not allowed host. Allowed hosts are: www.github.com.To allow more than one host, you can use the --allowed-hosts argument, like that:< 6621 /p>
./browser.py http://www.github.com/ --allowed-hosts github.comYou can even allow more than one extra host:
./browser.py http://www.google.com/ --allowed-hosts github.com www.github.com www.python.org pypi.python.orgSo you can search in google Github and Python and enter in those specifics sites. You may also need to add to allowed-hosts your regional Google site, for example www.google.com.br
You can also disable this, and allow any site navigation using --allow-any-host:
./browser.py http://www.google.com/ --allow-any-hostSo now you can go to any website googles shows to you.
Also, by default, you can't close browser window. To change this behavior you need to use --allow-close:
./browser.py http://www.google.com/ --allow-closeThe detect_monitors.py script helps screen detection to know which monitor each URL will go. It returns URLs in correct order to use with browser.py
Example usage:
URLS=`./detect_monitors.py http://www.github.com/ http://www.python.org --messages "Select the monitor to show GitHub" "Select the monitor to show Python.org"`
./browser.py $URLS- Thomaz de Oliveira dos Reis thor27@gmail.com
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