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Byzantium / ByzPi

RaspberryPi port of Byzantium Linux.
http://byzantium.github.com/ByzPi/
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Kiosk mode #1

Open haxwithaxe opened 11 years ago

haxwithaxe commented 11 years ago

kiosk mode for the default gui so that people can access the webgui and or use the node as a comms kiosk etc. the raspi is a tight platform for a full desktop so if we use just bare X11 and a web browser we can help keep the ram and threads down.

ElliotFriend commented 11 years ago

This article is pretty old, but still might be helpful http://jadoba.net/kiosks/firefox/

ElliotFriend commented 11 years ago

I found this article, which is designed for Chromium. I'm sure it wouldn't take too much work to make it work with another browser http://www.jamesrobertson.eu/blog/2012/oct/11/1901hrs.txt

It works on my qemu raspbian vm. You'd probably want to auto-login and auto-startx, for it to be effective as a kiosk. Chromium also seems to really drag on the raspi, but that could just be the virtualized pi that I'm using.

virtadpt commented 10 years ago

The easiest thing to do would be for us to not disable X at boot-time, which on Raspbian drops you right to the desktop. The trade-off is the amount of RAM that the Byzantium communications applications require. Let's profile it.