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Raspberry PI boot to browser

Here at NiteoWeb, we use various SaaS monitoring and logging providers such as Librato Metrics and Papertrail to keep on top of our Plone and Pyramid...

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  1. Disable screen sleep — so the screen stays on

    $ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
    
    # add the following lines to the [SeatDefaults] section

    don’t sleep the screen

    xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms

  2. Hide cursor on inactivity

    $ sudo apt-get install unclutter
  3. Configure LXDE to start the Midori browser on login

    $ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
    
    # comment everything and add the following lines
    
    @xset s off
    @xset -dpms
    @xset s noblank
    @midori -e Fullscreen -a http://plone.org

That’s it! Reboot and you are done!

Neyts Zupan

Neyts Zupan

Neyts is the Digital Overlord of Niteo, poking his nose into any and all technical things.