Chromium kiosk mode : Fullscreen and remove address bar

Question

I am trying to run chromium browser in kiosk mode in raspberry pi 3(Official Jessie ).

Here is i've added in my autostart file

@point-rpi
@xset s noblank
@xset s off
@xset -dpms

@chromium-browser --kisok www.fb.com

This works fine but some problem occured.

Browser is not opened in full window also the address bar is still present in chromium

So how can i remove above two items

Answer 1

For full kiosk mode, you might want to hide the Chromium scrollbars, always, for a webpage. This does not disable scrolling on a touchscreen. It just disables the scrollbars.

Using the --enable-features flag with chromium-browser did the trick for me.

--enable-features=OverlayScrollbar,OverlayScrollbarFlashAfterAnyScrollUpdate,OverlayScrollbarFlashWhenMouseEnter

And this is my full command:

    /usr/bin/chromium-browser --kiosk --noerrdialogs --enable-features=OverlayScrollbar --disable-restore-session-state http://10.10.0.16:8123

Also, to hide the mouse cursor entirely, I have changed the X command on my raspbian in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf from xserver-command=X to xserver-command=X -nocursor

Answer 2

1. Create a user, op in this example, for autologin at boot

   adduser op
   usermod –a –G op op
   usermod –a –G users op
   usermod –a –G audio op
   usermod –a –G video op
   

2. Configure the autologin by creating the file /etc/systemd/system/[email protected]/autologin.conf with the following content

   [Service]
   ExecStart=
   ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty --autologin op --noclear %I 38400 linux
   

3. Enable autologin with the following command

   systemctl enable [email protected]

4. Impersonate the op user with the following command

   sudo su - op

5. Insert at the end of the /home/op/.bashrc the following lines

   if [ $(tty) == "/dev/tty1" ]; then
   while true; do startx -- -nocursor; echo "Again [$?]..."; done
   fi

6. Create the file /home/op/.xinitrc with the following content

   chromium-browser --window-size=7000,7000 --start-fullscreen --kiosk -app=http://www.fb.com/

7. Reboot