The grown-up gate
The hold, the sum, and everything that sits behind them.
Press ✕, or Ctrl+Shift+X (Cmd+Shift+X on a Mac).
Grown-ups opens the portal. Close quits. Either way you hold a button for 3 seconds first, and the gate says which one you asked for.
The hold is timed in the main process, not the page. The animation is only for you to look at, and letting go early gets you nothing.
The sum, instead of the hold
If your child ever works the hold out, switch Getting in here on the Settings tab from Hold to Sum. You are then asked a small addition instead, and holding the button stops opening anything at all — it is one way in or the other, never both.
Wrong answers get a fresh sum, and three of them in a row lock the gate for ten seconds.
The grown-up screen
Four tabs: Play time, Installed apps, Catalogue and Settings. Quitting is in the corner rather than buried in a menu. Besides adding and editing apps:
- Check for updates asks GitHub whether a newer release exists and links to it. It reports only. Nothing is downloaded or installed, because a kiosk that can rewrite itself is a worse problem than one that is out of date.
- Reset Sukhi Play to factory settings wipes every app and setting and restarts into the walkthrough. It asks twice and cannot be undone.
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.debor.dmgyou installed by hand is not tracked by your system’s app store, so it will never offer you an update. That is how manual packages work rather than a fault in this app. Use Check for updates and download the new one.
A PIN is also available, for anyone who would rather type one. Unlike the sum, it comes after the hold rather than instead of it:
{ "gateMode": "pin", "pin": "4821" }Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
gateMode | "hold" | "hold", "sum" to answer an addition instead, or "pin" to also require a PIN after the hold |
holdSeconds | 3 | Seconds the exit button must be held (1–15) |
kiosk | true | Cover the whole screen, no window chrome |
alwaysOnTop | true | Keep the window above everything else |
refocusOnBlur | true | Pull the window back if the child clicks away |
showBlockCounter | true | Show “N ads blocked” in the bar |
onboarded | false | Set to false to see the first-run walkthrough again |
borrowDesktopShortcuts | true | Linux/GNOME only. Switch the desktop’s Alt+Tab and Super key off while the app runs, then restore them |
refocusOnBlur switches itself off if it ever starts fighting another window,
so it can never make the machine unusable.
