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Disabling the titlebar in Chrome/Chromium on IGEL OS

By default on IGEL OS, Chromium using the system’s window manager theme and frame. That results in the theme’s titlebar, max/min buttons, etc. I have a customer that wanted to disable the Chromium Titlebar to make it look like Edge on Windows. This can be accomplished on any linux install of Chrome or Chromium simply by right-clicking on an empty...

Customizing Conky in IGEL OS

Conky Introduction With the release of IGEL OS 11.06.100 on September 22nd, 2021, there were a large number of other highly sought after features. You can read all about them from the release notes available at https://kb.igel.com/igelos-11.06/en/new-features-11-06-100-49590231.html Included with IGEL OS 11.06.100, one of the most popular custom partitions that is regularly used in IGEL POCs and within customer environments...

Authenticated Web Kiosks with IGEL OS and Kerberos

The Background I had a customer approach me over a year ago with a problem around a web application they use for monitoring patient telemetry in ICUs.  The application was a rich media web application that on Windows was proving to be unstable and routinely was causing problems for them.  They had tried multiple browsers, Windows versions, backend changes, and...