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Chromium pop up on Raspbian

I'm running Chromium 16 on a Raspberry Pi 3 with the latest Raspbian. My purpose is to launch a Chromium page in --kiosk mode on start-up.

The Pi will always be shut down by switching the power off, so on start-up Chromium shows the "Chromium didn't shut down properly" pop-up. I need to disable this pop-up. I already looked for a bunch of solutions on the web, especially on this thread: https://superuser.com/questions/873381/how-can-i-disable-the-chromium-didn-t-shut-down-correctly-message-when-my-brow

Sadly, none of these work for me. I also tried to set the permissions for the chromium preferences file to read only, but permissions seem to be restored on boot.

Any ideas?

Solution

  • I was looking for a long time, here is my solution:

    #!/bin/bash

#Set CrProfile to the value of your startup profile's config folder
CrProfile="Default"

HomeFolder="/home/myhome"

#Set URL to the URL that you want the browser to start with
URL="http://www.apple.com"

#Delete SingletonLock
rm -f $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/SingletonLock
rm -f $HomeFolder/.cache/chromium

#Clean up the randomly-named file(s)
for i in $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/$CrProfile/.org.chromium.Chromium.*; do
    sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly": false/"exited_cleanly": true/' $i
    sed -i 's/"exit_state": "Crashed"/"exit_state": "Normal"/' $i
    sed -i 's/"exit_type":"Crashed"/"exit_type":"Normal"/' $i
done

#Clean up Preferences
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly": false/"exited_cleanly": true/' $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/$CrProfile/Preferences
sed -i 's/"exit_state": "Crashed"/"exit_state": "Normal"/' $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/$CrProfile/Preferences
sed -i 's/"exit_type":"Crashed"/"exit_type":"Normal"/' $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/$CrProfile/Preferences

#Clean up Local State
sed -i 's/"exited_cleanly": false/"exited_cleanly": true/' $HomeFolder/.config/chromium/"Local State"

/usr/bin/X11/chromium-browser --no-first-run --kiosk $URL