#!/bin/sh # RUN chromium in full screen with minimal SD-Card writes, runs OK on a Raspberry 3 with a webpage playing video # ADD a ram disk in fstab with this line # tmpfs /tmpcache tmpfs nodiratime,noatime,nosuid,nodev,size=256M 0 0 # and that this script is called on startup for a minimalistic (no desktop setup) # /etc/xdg/openbox/autostart # or (if you want to keep your desktop with other stuff) # Insiide /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi # @lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi # @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi # @xscreensaver -no-splash # /home/pi/start_chromium_stats.sh > /var/log/auto_start_output_stats_browser.log 2>&1 & export DISPLAY=:0 # Disable any form of screen saver / screen blanking / power management xset s off xset s noblank xset -dpms unclutter -idle 0.01 & # Allow quitting the X server with CTRL-ATL-Backspace setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp # Chromium keeps writing shit continuously in ~/.config/chromium # BUT WE cannot kill it completely because Home Assistant requires a login to save #mkdir /tmpcache/chromium_config_tmp #rm -rf ~/.config/chromium/ #ln -s /tmpcache/chromium_config_tmp ~/.config/chromium # Create links to RamDisk for most active files by chromium as observed using iotop / lsof rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/IndexedDB mkdir /tmpcache/IndexedDB ln -s /tmpcache/IndexedDB /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/IndexedDB rm -rf /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/GPUCache mkdir /tmpcache/GPUCache ln -s /tmpcache/GPUCache /home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/GPUCache rm -rf "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Local Extension Settings" mkdir /tmpcache/ChromeLocalExtensionSetttings ln -s /tmpcache/ChromeLocalExtensionSetttings "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/Local Extension Settings" rm -rf "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/QuotaManager-journal" mkdir /tmpcache/ChromeQuotaManager-journal ln -s /tmpcache/ChromeQuotaManager-journal "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/QuotaManager-journal" rm -rf "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/QuotaManager" mkdir /tmpcache/ChromeQuotaManager ln -s /tmpcache/ChromeQuotaManager "/home/pi/.config/chromium/Default/QuotaManager" sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/' ~/.config/chromium/'Local State' sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly":false/"exited_cleanly":true/; s/"exit_type":"[^"]\+"/"exit_type":"Normal"/' ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences nice -n 5 chromium-browser --disk-cache-dir=/tmpcache --force-device-scale-factor=0.68 --disable-infobars --enable-features=OverlayScrollbar,OverlayScrollbarFlashAfterAnyScrollUpdate,OverlayScrollbarFlashWhenMouseEnter --kiosk 'http://192.168.0.182:8123/lovelace-telacheia/0'