Running a webbrowser on the screen saver or login screen.

Posted by Erik Johansson on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by Erik Johansson
Published on 2011-02-10T13:09:05Z Indexed on 2011/02/10 15:33 UTC
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I would really like people to beable to use my locked computer to surf, so I would like some way to run a browser on login screen. So can I make GDM run firefox in some way? It would be cooler if I could have a browser as a screensaver, but that seems a bit harder.

Please ignore all the security problems with this, if you let someone use your computer you have lost that race anyways. Though of course it would be nice to have a browser running as another user.

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