Chromium-mir-kiosk snap set using strict confinment

[prasath]

Dear All,

We are using chromium-mir-kiosk snap and during runtime we shall need to change the url and so, we have used the below command,

snap set chromium-mir-kiosk url=https://www.google.com

This command had been working fine on a devmode. But on strict confinment, its not working.

Kindly guide me on how to achieve this on this strict confinment

[alan_g]

A couple of things:

1. chromium-mir-kiosk was a proof of concept, not a supported solution and is unmaintained. Please see if wpe-webkit-mir-kiosk suits your needs.
2. The snap command is not available from a strictly confined environment. There are obvious reasons why allowing snaps to control and install other snaps would be a security concern. (Within a confined snap snapctrl provides some of the same options for that snap.)

Introducing wpe-webkit-mir-kiosk snap

Dear snapcraft community, some have already come across this in the very lengthy [cross-post] chromium-mir-kiosk in portrait mode (rotated mir-kiosk layout) thread, but since it’s been a while, I’d like to introduce my snap wpe-webkit-mir-kiosk here and hopefully gather some feedback If you’re interested in the “why” and the bumpy road to a working snap, you can read up on the original thread. To keep things short here: WPE WebKit Snap for Mir in kiosk mode The WPE fork of WebKit, pack…

[ijohnson]

@alan_g

snapctrl

just a note that it’s snapctl

[ogra]

one should really be an alias for the other