Solitaire & Mahjong E-government Kiosk

Good evening,
Today I will tell you about e-government kiosks that can be turned off by anyone who loves to poke wherever they don’t need or even used GNOME 2 at least once. And there’s also solitaire.

Location

St. Petersburg, the underground passage of the Veterans metro, access to Dachny Avenue, the transition is closed with bars at 20:00. So, our experimental terminal is located quite well (in terms of vandal resistance).
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The article is mainly a photo of the LCD display from a soap box, there are many of them, not afraid to spoil the eyes, please under the cat.

Retreat

A few months ago I noticed such a device at the entrance to the subway:



It goes without saying that the hands were straining to feel this innovation, but there was somehow no time, it looked nothing special:



However, yesterday I saw something painfully familiar in the upper right corner:



Good Lord, this is ... GNOME 2:



But let's start in order. The auto-hide panel is just configured on the desktop:

So software

This is ubuntu 10.04 LTS, pretty vanilla, inspection showed pre-installed x11vnc server, Java, Nvidia drivers via Jockey-gtk and Adobe Air. Removed on-screen keyboard (sorry).

What is the iron inside?

We start the system monitor:



We see this is an Intel Core i3 with 3 GB of RAM. Video card discrete Nvidia. Hard disk (EXT4, without partitioning):



250 GB Western Digital:





System tab:

We start messing around

Run the terminal:



Run nautilus:



Launch Ubuntu Software Center:



Applications are not installed, asks for a password, the on-screen keyboard is thankfully not set, the password is probably qwerty:



Playing mahjong:



And in solitaire:



And now disable the terminal by simply turning it OFF.



Well, just reboot:



I didn’t manage to take a picture of the splash screen of the BIOS, the system loads into a working state pretty quickly, in the beginning it writes this:



Lastly, I’ll say that we have a Brother printer:



The system can also be hibernated, suspended or simply turned off. Then, without an engineer’s visit, it will not turn on. The interface of the kiosk itself was made with the help of adobe air and registered in autorun with GNOME. I do not even know. What do you think about this, gentlemen?
PS And if at each ATM or payment terminal with Windows the panel from Start - Shut Down was not removed?
PPS I offer a crutch for a quick solution to the problem:
Run on the kiosk:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common

, x- .
:

sudo gpasswd -a tuser audio

tuser .
.
.kiosok_air.sh Adobe Air.
.kiosk_x.sh ( ):

startx /home/tuser/.kiosk_air.sh -- :1

chmod +x .
:

/home/tuser/.kiosk_x.sh

, 10 :

sh -c 'sleep 10 && /home/tuser/.kiosk_x.sh'

Ctrl+Alt+F7, Ctrl+Alt+F8
, "-nocursor", .
, . .