Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Set up kiosk mode on Osoyoo 3.5 inch LCD

After installing Chromium (from earlier post in this blog) enter:
sudo apt-get install unclutter
This will hide the mouse after a second when it does not get used.

edit autostart using:

 sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

add the following to the bottom of the file:
@chromium-browser --kiosk http://URLgoesHere.com --incognito

also in other reading I have been advised to comment out the line "@xscreensaver -no-splash"

File locations for customizing the panel and the desktop

In order to change the wallpaper and hide the trash can use:
sudo nano ~/.config/pcmanfm/LXDE-pi/desktop-items-0.conf
In order to change the panel settings use:
 sudo nano ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panels/panel
In order to start chromium in kiosk mode use:
sudo nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart