How to make Chromium autostart in fullscreen

[spehe]

Hello,
totally new to RPI, trying to set up the famous 'magic mirror' project. Have followed a number of tutorials on this without luck. I want Chromium to autostart in kiosk mode and display the localhost page, but when RPI have booted it just displays the RPI desktop. I can see that I have managed to install Chromium since it is in the menu (have also started the Chromium GUI and tested it OK)

It is very frustrating being a beginner in this, so any help and suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

[elatllat]

depends on the OS but
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/qu ... ebian-whee

[fruitoftheloom]

Hello,
totally new to RPI, trying to set up the famous 'magic mirror' project. Have followed a number of tutorials on this without luck. I want Chromium to autostart in kiosk mode and display the localhost page, but when RPI have booted it just displays the RPI desktop. I can see that I have managed to install Chromium since it is in the menu (have also started the Chromium GUI and tested it OK)

It is very frustrating being a beginner in this, so any help and suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

Maybe take a look at kweb, it has kiosk mode

viewtopic.php?t=40860

[gordon77]

I have never done it but found this...

add @ /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk --ignore-certificate-errors --disable-restore-session-state "http://www.domain.com"

to the end of ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

[spehe]

Thank you for your interest and help. I have tried the suggestion from Gordon77 and unfortunately it did not work. The suggestion from fruitoftheloom I will keep as my last resort. I really want to get Chromium to work. Any other tips&tricks to get this to work?

This is actually the same problem I have with trying to turn of the screensaver/blank screen. I follow a number of tutorials, but none of them work for me... Very frustrating.

[spehe]

I have now tried the same thing with browser Midori, but I get exactely the same result; the desktop is displayed, and no browser is launched. It doesn't even look as if the autostart file is being executed at all. "sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart"

I am logged in with user "pi", and being a beginner, I am using NOOBS. Is there some way to determine wether my file is executed at all?

[gordon77]

My solution assumed you were using a raspbian install, not noobs, which may be different.

[spehe]

@Gordon77. Your solution was actually correct. I now finally managed to get midori to start in fullscreen mode. It worked to change the file ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart as you suggested earlier.

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@midori -e Fullscreen -a http://localhost
@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@unclutter -idle 1

So my assumption was correct that by some reason, the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart was not considered at boot up.

Thanks for your help!

[gordon77]

Apparently the system looks for the ~/.config file first and if it doesn't exist it uses the /etc/xdg file