Kiosk Breakout

Windows

Navigating with environment variables and shell directive:

ENVLocation

%HOMEDRIVE%, %SystemDrive%

"C:\"

%WINDIR%, %SystemRoot%

"C:\Windows"

%PROGRAMFILES%

"C:\Program Files"

%COMSPEC%

"C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe"

%COMMONPROGRAMFILES%

"C:\Program Files\Common Files"

%HOMEPATH%, %USERPROFILE%

"C:\Documents and Settings\Username"

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%

"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users"

%PROGRAMFILES(X86)%

"C:\Program Files (x86)" (only in 64-bit version)

%APPDATA%

"C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data"

%TEMP%, %TMP%

"C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Temp"

%COMMONPROGRAMFILES(x86)%

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files" (only in 64-bit version)

CommandLocation

shell:System

"C:\Windows\System32"

shell:Downloads

Current user's "Downloads" folder

shell:MyComputerFolder

"This PC" window

Linux

gtkdialog

HTLM-based pseudo terminal emulator (useful when there's no other terminal apps available):

shell.html
<window>
	<vbox>
		<vbox scrollable="true" width="500" height="400">
			<edit>
				<variable>CMDOUTPUT</variable>
				<input file>/tmp/termout.txt</input>
			</edit>
	</vbox>
	<hbox>
		<text><label>Command:</label></text>
		<entry><variable>CMDTORUN</variable></entry>
		<button>
				<label>Run</label>
				<action>$CMDTORUN > /tmp/termout.txt 2>&1</action>
				<action>refresh:CMDOUTPUT</action>
			</button>
	</hbox>
	</vbox>
</window>

The shell can be invoked with /usr/bin/gtkdialog -f shell.html

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