bloomnsa.blogg.se - Openbox raspberry pi

First I would have to disable the GUI somehow… For that, I need to first find out which GUI is running.

This basically creates the following file with the above works perfectly in the Arch Linux running on my laptop… but how do I make it work on Raspbian?įor one thing, Raspbian comes with a full fledged GUI.

ExecStart= ExecStart=-/usr/bin/agetty -autologin -noclear %I $TERM Generally, each getty process is started by systemd and manages a single terminal line.” Its purpose is to protect the system from unauthorized access. For autologin, look at: … al_console Autologin getty in Arch Linuxįrom arch wiki - “ A getty is the generic name for a program which manages a terminal line and its connected terminal. I googled “CDM autologin”, and got this wonderful result, where Mektub says,ĬDM is a display manager. Hmm… maybe CDM has the same autologin feature that spanezz was talking about.

On the list of console based display managers, nodm is the third.

We have all seen graphical display managers, but there are also console based display managers.

A display manager runs at the end of the boot process(instead of the default shell).

I learnt a lot from the article, but the things relevant to piosk are, Much later, around end of April, I ran into this github thread,

I implemented the setup with the trifecta of nodm, matchbox and uzbl. For those cases, nodm is simple to setup, lightweight, and it should do exactly the right thing. However, there are cases where automatic login is needed: for example in an embedded system such as a mobile phone, or in a kiosk setup, or in a control panel for industrial machinery. On a normal computer, using nodm is a big security issue because it would give anyone access to the computer. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”įrom github - nodm is a minimal display manager that simply logs in as a given user and starts an X session, without asking for username or password. In particular, I liked the second one - because it used nodm, matchbox and uzbl - all lightweight compared to lightdm, lxde-openbox and chromium.Īt this point a brief intro about each of them is justified… matchbox window managerįrom the wikipedia page - “ It is mainly intended for embedded systems and differs from most other window managers in that it only shows one window at a time.”įrom the website - “ Write programs that do one thing and do it well.