syedhassaanahmed / kiosk-demo-electron

Package and distribute Electron Apps and run them in Kiosk mode on Windows 10

Hi there 👋

I'm a curious Engineering Manager with 17+ years of experience in developing software and leading engineering teams. Having lived in 4 countries, I've developed a strong ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional and geo-distributed teams. Having worked across industries such as Retail, Telco, Manufacturing and Energy, enables me to drive customer success, business value, and engineering excellence.

You can find some of my work and projects on GitHub: https://github.com/syedhassaanahmed

Great Software Engineers from my observation (in no particular order)

• teach themselves multiple ways of solving the same problem and understand that code is just one of the many ways to achieve the solution.
• treat code as a liability, not an asset.
• prioritize building for current requirements over hypothetical future ones aka YAGNI
• consider the term best practices as relative. Since best practices constantly evolve over time, great engineers brace themselves to unlearn and re-learn.
• never settle in learning in-depth how something works.
• put people over processes.
• judge people on their contributions, not on how confident they seem.
• don't let their own desire to get things done quickly, turn into undue pressure on peers.
• recognize that out of all the agile practices commonly used, estimating work items and trying to measure project velocity is the least productive.
• acknowledge that new systems are best designed by a small number of minds, not committees.
• are aware that their team is only as good as the weakest code reviewer.
• are cautious when dealing with hyped/fashionable tech (e.g. Kubernetes) and understand that CS fundamentals don’t change much over time.
• ensure that all code must have good tests regardless if the tests were written first, last, or in the middle.
• have the same high standards for all the code they write, from tests, little scripts to the inner loop of critical system.
• deploy from main branch to prod from the very beginning of a project.
• automate all the things that are worth automating.
• know the importance of being able to tell what the system is doing, so they make sure it’s observable.
• As managers/leads, if things go well, they give their team the credit. If things go sideways, they take the blame themselves.

kiosk-demo-electron's Issues

WiX Toolset v3 unmaintained

Hello!

I saw on the WiX Toolset v3 documentation page [1] its no longer maintained. Is it to worry and is there a reason to update to v4?

Thanks!

[1] https://wixtoolset.org/docs/v3/overview/

Setting Custom Shell

hey there! Thanks for your kiosk-biolerplate.

I am having problems running your Install-ShellLauncher.ps1 script.
I am running it in an elevated Powershell and invoke your Skript like this:
(a bit redacted)

 .\Install-ShellLauncher.ps1 kioskuser C:\Users\kioskuser\projects\myexe.exe

08/22/2017 19:42:19 Shell Launcher Enabled is set to True

08/22/2017 19:42:19 userName is kioskuser 

08/22/2017 19:42:19 Cashier_SID is S-1-5-21-3723059876-2847769641-3209782291-XXX
08/22/2017 19:42:19 exeName is C:\Users\kioskuser\projects\myexe.exe

08/22/2017 19:42:19 New settings for custom shells:

08/22/2017 19:42:19 @{Sid=S-1-5-21-3723059876-2847769641-3209782291-XXX
; Shell=C:\Users\kioskuser\projects\myexe.exe; DefaultAction=0}

Logging in now with my main user, Shows now a black Shell and not a Default Shell.
Also using kioskuser does not start myexe.exe.
Running the Uninstaller resets back the the Default Shell.

What is the best way to debug the Problem?

Windows 10 (1803) - Black screen on kiosk user launch

Hi, we have successfully built and installed and set up the kiosk user, however, the electron app does not launch. We just get a black screen (explorer.exe does not launch). Here is the install log:

11/16/2018 09:34:43 Shell Launcher Enabled is set to True

11/16/2018 09:34:43 Default Shell is set to explorer.exe and the default action is set to 0

11/16/2018 09:34:43 UserName is kiosk

11/16/2018 09:34:43 Cashier_SID is S-1-5-21-64846573-2525431716-3060751376-1002

11/16/2018 09:34:43 ExeName is C:\Program Files (x86)\Kiosk Demo Electron\kiosk-demo-electron.exe

11/16/2018 09:34:43 New settings for custom shell:

11/16/2018 09:34:43 @{PSComputerName=JIMBO; __GENUS=2; __CLASS=WESL_UserSetting; __SUPERCLASS=; __DYNASTY=WESL_UserSetting; __RELPATH=WESL_UserSetting.Sid="S-1-5-21-64846573-2525431716-3060751376-1002"; __PROPERTY_COUNT=5; __DERIVATION=System.String[]; __SERVER=JIMBO; __NAMESPACE=root\standardcimv2\embedded; __PATH=\JIMBO\root\standardcimv2\embedded:WESL_UserSetting.Sid="S-1-5-21-64846573-2525431716-3060751376-1002"; CustomReturnCodes=; CustomReturnCodesAction=; DefaultAction=0; Shell=C:\Program Files (x86)\Kiosk Demo Electron\kiosk-demo-electron.exe; Sid=S-1-5-21-64846573-2525431716-3060751376-1002; Scope=System.Management.ManagementScope; Path=\JIMBO\root\standardcimv2\embedded:WESL_UserSetting.Sid="S-1-5-21-64846573-2525431716-3060751376-1002"; Options=System.Management.ObjectGetOptions; ClassPath=\JIMBO\root\standardcimv2\embedded:WESL_UserSetting; Properties=System.Management.PropertyDataCollection; SystemProperties=System.Management.PropertyDataCollection; Qualifiers=System.Management.QualifierDataCollection; Site=; Container=}