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I would like to set up a couple of Raspberry Pis to open automatically chromium or any other browser available to at start-up, and in full screen mode.

I was wondering if any of you can help me. These will be placed as some fixed stations where I load up some URLs when raspberry pi starts.

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Catalin
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Edit this file

sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

And add this:

@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@chromium-browser --kiosk http://google.com/  # load chromium after boot and open the website in full screen mode

Then reboot. Chromium should automatically launch in fullscreen mode after the desktop has loaded.

Note: The default file ( /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart ) is the global autostart and is executed each time a user logs into the desktop. In case you want to use local autostart, use /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart. Local autostart(s) are useful when you want to run different programs or configurations for each user.

You can also add this line if you want the mouse to disappear:

@unclutter -idle 0.1 -root

(requires sudo apt-get install unclutter)

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on chromium you can use --start-fullscreen (like F11)

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