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Chromium 48 on Debian 8 (Jessie) in a kiosk mode.
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Chromium 48 on Debian 8 (Jessie) in a kiosk mode.

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# PI Setup



### Download Image & Install



`https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/`



[Raspbian Latest](https://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian_latest.torrent) (Jessie 8)



`sudo dd bs=1m if=path_of_your_image.img of=/dev/rdiskn`



Replace `n` with the disk number



### Setup Wifi



`sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf`



```

network={

    ssid="SSID"

    psk="password"

}

```



```

sudo ifdown wlan0

sudo ifup wlan

```



### Necessary Software for Kiosk

```

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

sudo apt-get install matchbox x11-xserver-utils ttf-mscorefonts-installer xwit sqlite3 libnss3

```



Then reboot : `sudo reboot`



### Installation of libgcrypt11 on Debian Linux 8 ( Jessie ) 64-bit



```

wget http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage/snapshot/Debian/pool/main/libg/libgcrypt11/libgcrypt11_1.5.3-5_armhf.deb



sudo dpkg -i libgcrypt11_1.5.3-5_armhf.deb

```



### Installation of Chromium browser 48



`https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/armhf/chromium-browser/`



```

# Download chromium package

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/234969703/chromium-browser_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb

```



`https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/vivid/armhf/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra/`



```

# Download ffmpeg extra package

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/234969705/chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb

```



```

# Install Packages

sudo dpkg -i chromium-codecs-ffmpeg-extra_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb \ 

	chromium-browser_48.0.2564.82-0ubuntu0.15.04.1.1193_armhf.deb

```



### Pi Config 



`/boot/config.txt`



```

# 1900x1200 at 32bit depth, DMT mode

disable_overscan=0

overscan_left=38

overscan_right=38

overscan_top=25

overscan_bottom=25



framebuffer_width=1900

framebuffer_height=1200

framebuffer_depth=32

framebuffer_ignore_alpha=1

hdmi_pixel_encoding=1

hdmi_group=2



#uncomment to overclock the arm. 700 MHz is the default.

arm_freq=1000



core_freq=500

sdram_freq=500

over_voltage=2

gpu_mem=128

```



### Method 1 : rc.local + xinit script



`/etc/rc.local`



```

# Wait for the TV-screen to be turned on...

while ! $( tvservice --dumpedid /tmp/edid | fgrep -qv 'Nothing written!' ); do

	bHadToWaitForScreen=true;

	printf "===> Screen is not connected, off or in an unknown mode, waiting for it to become available...\n"

	sleep 10;

done;



printf "===> Screen is on, extracting preferred mode...\n"

_DEPTH=32;

eval $( edidparser /tmp/edid | fgrep 'preferred mode' | tail -1 | sed -Ene 's/^.+(DMT|CEA) \(([0-9]+)\) ([0-9]+)x([0-9]+)[pi]? @.+/_GROUP=\1;_MODE=\2;_XRES=\3;_YRES=\4;/p' );



printf "===> Resetting screen to preferred mode: %s-%d (%dx%dx%d)...\n" $_GROUP $_MODE $_XRES $_YRES $_DEPTH

tvservice --explicit="$_GROUP $_MODE"

sleep 1;



printf "===> Resetting frame-buffer to %dx%dx%d...\n" $_XRES $_YRES $_DEPTH

fbset --all --geometry $_XRES $_YRES $_XRES $_YRES $_DEPTH -left 0 -right 0 -upper 0 -lower 0;

sleep 1;



if [ -f /boot/xinitrc ]; then

	ln -fs /boot/xinitrc /home/pi/.xinitrc;

	su - pi -c 'startx' &

fi

```



`/boot/xinitrc`



```

#!/bin/sh

while true; do



	# Clean up previously running apps, gracefully at first then harshly

	killall -TERM chromium-browser 2>/dev/null;

	killall -TERM matchbox-window-manager 2>/dev/null;

	sleep 2;

	killall -9 chromium-browser 2>/dev/null;

	killall -9 matchbox-window-manager 2>/dev/null;



	# Clean out existing profile information

	rm -rf /home/pi/.cache;

	rm -rf /home/pi/.config;

	rm -rf /home/pi/.pki;



	# Generate the bare minimum to keep Chromium happy!

	mkdir -p /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default

	sqlite3 /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Web\ Data "CREATE TABLE meta(key LONGVARCHAR NOT NULL UNIQUE PRIMARY KEY, value LONGVARCHAR); INSERT INTO meta VALUES('version','46'); CREATE TABLE keywords (foo INTEGER);";



	# Disable DPMS / Screen blanking

	xset -dpms

	xset s off



	# Reset the framebuffer's colour-depth

	fbset -depth $( cat /sys/module/*fb*/parameters/fbdepth );



	# Hide the cursor (move it to the bottom-right, comment out if you want mouse interaction)

	xwit -root -warp $( cat /sys/module/*fb*/parameters/fbwidth ) $( cat /sys/module/*fb*/parameters/fbheight )



	# Start the window manager (remove "-use_cursor no" if you actually want mouse interaction)

	matchbox-window-manager -use_titlebar no -use_cursor no &



	# Start the browser (See http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/)

	chromium-browser  --app='https://google.com'



done;

```



### Method 2 : lxsession autostart



`nano .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart`



```

@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi

@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi

@chromium-browser --kiosk --disable-session-crashed-bubble --disable-infobars https://www.google.com

```



`sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf`



```

# don't sleep the screen

xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms

```



### Credits



* [HOWTO: Boot your Raspberry Pi into a fullscreen browser kiosk](http://blogs.wcode.org/2013/09/howto-boot-your-raspberry-pi-into-a-fullscreen-browser-kiosk/)

* [Installing Google Chromium on ARM devices](http://blog.valitov.me/2014/06/installing-google-chromium-on-arm.html)

* [Installation of Spotify client on Debian Linux 8 ( Jessie ) 64-bit](http://linuxconfig.org/installation-of-spotify-client-on-debian-linux-8-jessie-64-bit)

* [How do I cross-compile Chromium for ARM?](http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/176794/how-do-i-cross-compile-chromium-for-arm)