Slideshow: a site whose path is a local folder (/home/kiosk/photos/, or
any existing directory) plays its images full-screen instead of showing
Chromium's directory listing. kiosk-app/slideshow.js maps the folder URL
to slideshow.html (resolveSiteUrl - used where main.js loads a view and
where attachView re-checks the configured URL) and pushes the image list
into the page from the main process (the page has no fs access), re-read
every minute so added/removed images show up without a restart. Natural
file-name order, crossfade, letterboxed by default; optional
slideshow.json in the folder: interval, shuffle, fit, transition,
recursive. provision_install_app already copies kiosk-app/*.js/*.html,
so new installs and Advanced -> Upgrade pick it up.
Electron: ^42.0.0 -> ^44.0.0. Electron supports the latest three majors
(44/43/42), so 42 drops out when 45 ships. Checked the 43/44 breaking
changes against kiosk-app: nothing it uses changed (no clipboard,
safeStorage, net.request, utilityProcess; BrowserView is deprecated but
still present through 46). The offline bundle builder now retries
Electron's install.js download, which crashes outright if a large
download is cut off mid-stream.
Tested with the real main.js on Electron 44.5.1 under Xvfb + Openbox:
slideshow fills the screen, cycles in order (01, 02, 10) skipping a .txt
file, honours slideshow.json, and an image added mid-run joined the
rotation after the refresh. Offline bundle rebuilt with Electron 44.5.1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
`iso/build-iso.sh --offline` (and the workflow's new `offline` box, on by
default) adds ~420 MB to the ISO and copies it to /opt/kiosk-offline:
- apt/: local repository with every package install.sh's provisioning
and the CUPS addon install ask for, NodeSource's nodejs, and all
dependencies a fresh server install doesn't already have. Resolved
against the source ISO's own package manifest via a synthesized dpkg
status (iso/offline/fake-dpkg-status.py), so apt downloads only what's
missing and makes the same virtual/alternative choices as the target.
- npm/: prebuilt kiosk-app (Electron 42, binary included - it no longer
downloads at npm install time) and Web UI node_modules.
On first boot, kiosk-firstboot installs online as before when there's
internet; with none it waits KIOSK_OFFLINE_WAIT (90s), then runs
`kiosk-offline-apt on` (apt.conf.d drop-in: bundle is the ONLY source)
and turns it off again afterwards. install.sh notices offline mode via
offline_mode_active (lib/config.sh) and installs nodejs from the bundle
and unpacks prebuilt node_modules instead of npm install.
Package lists moved into PROVISION_APT_PACKAGES /
PROVISION_INTEL_APT_PACKAGES / CUPS_APT_PACKAGES so the bundler reads
the same lists install.sh installs from.
Tested: built against the 26.04.1 ISO, then in a network-less chroot of
the ISO's own server filesystem installed every package set, ran
provision_create_kiosk_user/install_nodejs/install_app and
webui_install_app_files in offline mode (Electron runs, no missing
libraries, chrome-sandbox setuid), and ran kiosk-firstboot through the
offline switch with a stub install.sh.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Cjz8a58eB5P9sUweqd3NHm
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