On 2 March 2018 at 20:04, Phil Thane phil@pthane.co.uk wrote:
Back when Chrome OS was rumoured but no-one had any detail I did a piece for MicroMart about a DIY alternative (unfortunately so long ago it's gone...).
So a little while back then!
Basically as I remember it it was Debian minimal install with Blackbox window manager and Chrome. Somewhere in the Blackbox settings menu was an option to add apps to run on startup.
I suspect that installing a WM and doing it this way might be the best option (and WM will have that capability I guess).
So far what I have is my Pi booting with a splash screen (no boot text) right up to the point where you'd normally login, at which point it auto-logs in (but throws a couple of lines of text onto the screen - I have got rid of motd etc but that's not quite enough) then loads the browser, but since it's still the terminal TTY as well a couple of error messages come up on top later.
I think I need to wind back to a clean Raspbian install and try again, it's all got too chaotic!
Mark