Chromium AutoStart Command Line

Requests
1

LOVE DietPi, and really love the new option to launch Chromium directly, without having to start a desktop first. What I’m wondering is how I can modify or specify the command line used to launch Chromium when it’s configured as the autostart option.

I’m using DietPi to create a very limited kiosk on RPi3, and I’d like Chromium to start in kiosk mode, fullscreen, to a particular web page. I have the working command line to launch Chromium the way I want it, but when setting AutoStartTarget to 11 to launch Chromium with no desktop, I don’t see a way to specify the command line used for launch.

Is it possible to do this?

Thanks!

2

Hi,

If you can provide us with the command line arguments to run in Kiosk mode, i’ll add that option into DietPi-Autostart and give you instructions to update the script :slight_smile:

Another option, edit the sourcecode as needed:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/blob/master/dietpi/login#L140

In /DietPi/dietpi/login

^^ Just bear in mind, updating DietPi will overwrite your changes as all scripts are replaced.

3

The command line will be something along the lines of

chromium --bwsi --disable-breakpad --kiosk --noerrdialogs <site>

Maybe it would be possible to adjust the autostart settings to allow specifying the command line?

I’ll try modifying the login script manually and see how that goes.

Thanks!

4

Great idea.

I’ll add a “custom” autostart option, that will launch a bash script in which you can put those command lines:
https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/916

5

That will be awesome. Thank you!

6

Hi,

All done, available in v150, but we can update the 2 scripts now with:

wget https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/raw/testing/dietpi/login -O /DietPi/dietpi/login
wget https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/raw/testing/dietpi/dietpi-autostart -O /DietPi/dietpi/dietpi-autostart

Then simply run and select “Custom”

dietpi-autostart
7

Check out DietPi “dev” branch: DietPi/BRANCH_SYSTEM.md at master · Fourdee/DietPi · GitHub

Or you have to wait until v.153 come out: DietPi/CHANGELOG.txt at dev · Fourdee/DietPi · GitHub

8

Thanks. In v153 autostart works fine!