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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-24 at 02:39

Anyone have any tips on setting up a Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu as a display kiosk?

I'm making a virtual fireplace and want a raspi to just display a video on loop. I don't have any experience interacting with the graphics layer outside the window manager; not sure how to set it up so that I could ssh into the machine, run a command line app, and have the result of that be one app taking over the whole screen and displaying its output.

Any suggestions welcome! #ubuntu #linux

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Written by Fred Brooker on 2025-01-24 at 03:06

@mark Gemini recommends using Ubuntu + Chromium in kiosk mode + some scripting

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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-24 at 05:30

@fredbrooker Hm! Chromium in kiosk mode I hadn't considered. My plan was to move everything to native, but now that you mention it, it's a lot easier if I just put it all in some JavaScript and some embed tags.

(Native API owners take note: I'm willing to burn gigabytes of RAM and a lot of CPU cycles to just do this in a browser because a browser has one coherent, surprisingly-consistently-documented API, and that's a damn sight better than trying to string together three APIs written to three paradigms in three eras of computing! Consistency is king.)

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Written by Fred Brooker on 2025-01-24 at 05:32

@mark many commercial companies use Chromium or Firefox in kiosk mode just for this

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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-24 at 05:33

@fredbrooker Yeah, at least for the prototype that gets me off the ground a lot quicker.

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