Kiosk mode in Opera 8.51 for OS X

Posted on January 28, 2006 by blogmywiki

Okay, so I was obviously doing something wrong – thanks to a kind soul on the Opera forum, I now know that typing

/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -kioskmode

in the Terminal does indeed launch Opera 8.51 for OS X in kiosk mode.

So now I just need to work out how to get URL filtering to work (I can’t! – I think it’s not finding my ini file) and how to get Terminal scripts to launch at startup or login…

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4 Responses to Kiosk mode in Opera 8.51 for OS X

  1. OtherMachines says:
    January 28, 2006 at 12:36 am

    okay – getting there… under advances preferences, I think the path to the URL filtering file has to start
    /Users/myname/Library/Preferences etc and not using colons as in the ‘Mastering Opera’ guide. Now it’s just making Opera go nuts.

  2. OtherMachines says:
    January 30, 2006 at 2:56 pm

    probably got this wrong but I think I can automate Opera starting in Kiosk mode by going to the Applescript editor and typing in this script:
    –
    do shell script “/Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -kioskmode”
    –
    Then save it as an application and make that App start at startup or login in the ‘Users’ system preference.

  3. OtherMachines says:
    January 30, 2006 at 10:42 pm

    oh flooping hell – this works in Panther but in Tiger… the App you create in Applescript then forces you to click on OK before it will run… I guess this is a security feature, but it’s bloody annoying. Back to square 1.

  4. OtherMachines says:
    January 31, 2006 at 9:28 pm

    Ok this is getting weird now… tried the Applescript app I made in Panther on a machine with Tiger.
    And much to my surprise, it runs in Tiger without the annoying ‘press ok to run this script’ dialog box.
    I guess I need to hang on to a Panther machine or get the old Panther Applescript Editor on any future Tiger machines.

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