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Kiosk Utility for Grafana
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Chrome or LXDE required? #111

Open sbrooke opened 11 months ago

sbrooke commented 11 months ago

Per this part of the install page:

This application can run on most operating systems, but for linux some additional binaries are suggested for full support. Suggesting Packages: unclutter (for hiding mouse/cursor) rng-tools (for entropy issues)

There's no mention of a desktop environment or Chrome(ium) being required. When I try to run it I get an error message about not being able to locate the google-chrome executable.

It's fine if it requires a desktop or X environment of some kind. The documentation doesn't reflect that.

briangann commented 11 months ago

Yes a desktop environment is required along with chromium, the docs should be updated to reflect that requirement.

It doesn't require LXDE, but was initially built for it, and it doesn't harm anything to let it run with that setting as true.

I'm working on a "wayland" friendly setup also, the only problem is getting the equivalent of unclutter to work.

sbrooke commented 11 months ago

Thanks for the confirmation! I don't think it's just me, but I'm trying to run this as "lightly" as possible and the lack of documentation of a desktop requirement had me intrigued. Just need to be clear in the install requirements that Raspbian Lite isn't an option. I actually have a dozen+ linux installs in the house, and not one of them has a desktop environment.

Also, thanks for the Wayland mention. Oddly enough I had not heard of that, but now I have and I'm very interested! Will the Wayland version also be published here?

briangann commented 11 months ago

Yes, the wayland modifications will be included in the near future. I have an Orange pi and Libre pi that are running it, and have been useful alternatives for kiosk devices.