Kiosk Mode
Feb 2020
Last updated
Feb 2020
Last updated
This image I used is Raspbian Buster with desktop and it comes with a Chromium browser installed by default. Also I am running with the default user pi, which is relevant for the example below and needs to be considered if you are running a different user.
So these are the steps I took to get a basic clean Kiosk Experience.
First, we want to get rid of the mouse cursor on the desktop. This is really simple and only requires us to install the unclutter package.
To make sure that this actually worked, we can simply restart the desktop using following command:
The next important step is to prevent the screensaver kicking in and blanking the screen. The simplest configuration I could come up with was changing the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart like this:
The last entry in the above configuration file launches the the script /home/pi/run.sh, which will contain the code for launching Chromium in Kiosk Mode. But we have to create that file first:
Then make it executable:
Now, let’s edit this file so it looks like this (note: the line breaks are just for formatting reasons).
All above parameters must be on same line
