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broccolifarmer
broccolifarmer

Reputation: 475

Firefox/Chrome Shell for Ubuntu

I have googled my tail off - but can't seem to find what I am looking for. In Ubuntu (or any Linux distro for that matter) is there a way to set the GUI shell to only be Firefox or Chrome. Meaning - I don't need an entire desktop environment - just the one application.

I am pretty much trying to figure out a Linux equivalent to changing HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon from explorer.exe to firefox.exe.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 210

Answers (1)

user405725
user405725

Reputation:

By default, distributions are setup the way that a display manager is fired up right after the X server. For Gnome, that would be GDM, for KDE that would be KDM etc. What you need to do is to replace a Window manager with a custom application, which in your case is a web browser. Generally, you can achieve this by putting your command(s) into ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession files, for example:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
firefox &

For Ubuntu, this process is explained in details here. Other distros are quite similar.

Hope it helps. Good Luck!

Upvotes: 1

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