How to open Chromium in full screen at startup on the Raspberry Pi

Chromium-at-startup.md

(debian 10 buster)

First, it seems that ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart does not exist by default.

1. copy the autostart

cp /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/

2. open the autostart with nano

nano ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

3. Then edit the autostart

@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
#@xscreensaver -no-splash
point-rpi
chromium --start https://google.com/

if you want to autostart incongnito mode

@chromium-browser --incognito --start https://google.com/

chromium --incognito https://google.com/

^ + x exit and save

then sudo reboot to try on

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the various other browser modes:

• Application Mode: @chromium-browser --app. The browser starts up without displaying any toolbars.

• Full-screen mode: @chromium-browser --start-fullscreen. The browser starts in app. mode but expanded to full-screen. You can press the F11 key to break out of full-screen mode.

• Kiosk mode: @chromium-browser --kiosk. The browser starts in full-screen mode but does not respond to the F11 key, nor to any command to get it to switch tasks.

Raspbian switched to Wayland, which kind of ignores the autostart file.
You now have to add your custom lines to the [autostart] section of your wayfire file

~/.config/wayfire.ini

If the [autostart] section doesn't exist, just create it.

Mine looks like this:

[autostart]
chromium = chromium-browser https://www.google.com --kiosk --noerrdialogs --disable-infobars --no-first-run --ozone-platform=wayland --enable-features=OverlayScrollbar --start-maximized
screensaver = false
dpms = false

The only issue left for me is currently to disable the cursor, because unclutter won't work with Wayland (as far as I know)

@MS-FSTLN I managed to hide the cursor by adding this CSS to the document I am displaying:

  * {
        cursor: none;
    }

If this isn't an option, you could try and install an chrome extension that applies custom styles