I have been following the guide at http://www.etcwiki.org/wiki/Install_Synergy_Raspberry_Pi_3_-_June_2016 to install Synergy on my pi with FullPageOS.
But i seem to get stuck on how to get the "autostart file" ~/.config/autostart/synergy.desktop
to autostart?

If i type cynergyc 192.198.1.22 manually in putty the Pi connects to my synergy server, but how do i get it to autostart. I guess FullPageOS bypasses the ability to have that kind of autostart file, but i guess there is another way to autostart the line /usr/local/bin/synergyc 192.168.1.22

Is there a way to exit chromium once booting has completed? I need to troubleshoot some networking issues and can't get back to the command line locally.

Join us (virtually or physically) for the next phase of FullPageDashboard development

We are looking for developers in the following fields of knowledge:

• Node+Express websocket
• Chorme extensions
• Front-end mobile web
• System Linux (shell scripting)

Hackathon details: http://hacktheweb.co/
Start: July 29th, 11am GMT +02:00
End: July 30th, 6pm GMT +02:00

Contact [email protected] or http://m.me/fullpageos

Hi,

When testing power loss (unplug/plug power cable), the cmdline.txt get corrupted and the Pi cannot boot. see attached png.

And we need to install the img via Win32DiskImager

Regards from french Alps
Emmanuel

I've noticed that the Cursor doesn't seem to be hiding itself after loading web page.

Tried to configure WIFI from the fullpageos-network file but does not work.

If i go to X server and configure from graphical screen it works and remains configurated for next reboots.

If i go to /etc/network/interfaces and edit there the same lines i have in fullpageos-network it works.

uncommented the lines IFACE - SSID - PASSWORD

Fixes RC1 issues:
Vnc password issue #26
Mouse movement #34 (Thanks @tcaddy ! )

Image:
http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/2016-06-15_2016-05-10-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.6.0.zip
Md5:
http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/2016-06-15_2016-05-10-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.6.0.zip.md5

Please confirm there are no new issues and we can finally release it

Great project.

I just can't make it start - using wired ethernet Pi, using everything as supplied (latest build) just get black screen with cursor on it. Can SSH in so network working.

Not sure what else to try - any help welcome.
Cheers David

I mean, does this distro only run SSH & Chrome at startup, or is this still possible to install scripts, and why not quit chrome or run other applications in other sessions ?

For example, this could allow to run a local web server, and display its main view via Chrome at startup. But the HTML could still be editable directly from the Pi, or via a WebIDE, etc.

thanks !

I have couple of Raspberries loading a specific webpage containing an image slider with never ending loop.

This is working like a charm, UNLESS Raspberry gets disconnected for some reason.

Chromium just says "Error 105 (net;;ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address". And it stays that way until I manually refresh the page or reboot.

So, can I make Chromium refresh page automatically, let's say when Raspberry detects DHCP back online or just refresh every 10 minutes?

Where can I find the config for the autoloading chromium?

Currently, when accessing http://fullpageos.local the default lighttpd page is displayed in the browser. For the sake of HTTP management of the device, or even a simple info page, I think it would be great if we add another settings file on the SD card that defines the URL to redirect from web root.
index.php should be updated to read the parameter from /boot/fullpageos-webroot-redirect-url.txt and redirect the browser.
Meanwhile, I'm directing my browser to http://fullpageos.local/FullPageDashboard/ for page rotation management (on Windows using FireFox since chrome can't see fullpageos.local)

Hey,
The long delays FullPageOS 0.6 first release candidate.
The image should work on the new RaspberryPi 3, it takes up half of the size, and packs an up to date chromium browser with a new tool that lets you add multiple tabs.

Would be nice if people can confirm it works for them, or not:

Image:
http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/2016-05-27_2016-05-10-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.6.0.zip
Md5:
http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/2016-05-27_2016-05-10-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.6.0.zip.md5

Connect to http://fullpageos.local/FullPageDashboard/ from another computer on the same network and edit dashboard tabs as you wish, then restart the raspberry pi

You can set the time for each tab by clicking the timer icon on the top left

Hi,
I am really enjoying the OS you have put together for raspberry pi! One feature I would like to see added is the automatic refresh. I have been playing with it for sometime and not been in getting this to work. I know someone else mentioned this in October, but I wanted to see where it currently stands.

Thank you for putting together a great program!

I loaded up the the most recent Jesse version onto my Rpi 2.

In order to get the HDMI to work I had to change the config to uncomment:
hdmi_force_hotplug=1

The result can be seen here:
Image can be viewed here

I have used different monitors with fresh install on a new SD card. Same results.

The mouse can move over the full range of the screen. It IS fullscreen. The dashboards appear to be smashed into 10% of the screen.

Any ideas?

I seem to be having an issue with running this.

I get the following on boot:

Error: Can't open display (null)
Failed creating new xdo instance

My Pi is an early model B.

The page shown is maximized with only title bar and and the browser border visible.

Checked all the script files in the home folder and seems ok , tried to change kiosk mode to fullscreen mode in chromium but nothing happened.

If i insert a keyboard and press F11 it goes correctly full screen. Looks like the refreshing and F5 keystroke script written in the scripts folder are not working.

After some changes i installed again the untouched image in the SD card to see if something i´ve changed was forcing this issue but the problem seems to appear from scratch. On first boot the page goes maximized but not fullscreen.

I couldnt check the refresh one after first boot because i have not internet connection.

I'm using version 0.5.0 on a Pi model B and trying to serve a file on the SD card but Chromium keeps giving me an error 'FILE_NOT_FOUND'. I might just be getting the URL format wrong, I'm not sure. In fullpageos.txt I've set the following:
file:///~/test/index.html

Any clues? Many thanks.

if you use:
FULLPAGEOS_INCLUDE_LIGHTTPD=no

The chromium browser will not come up due to the wait for a '200' from the localhost in:
https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS/blob/devel/src/filesystem/home/pi/scripts/run_onepageos#L10
Which will never happen since there is not http listening

So... after working for some time. Getting annoyed at my Raspian Lite still having a Display Manager. I took the challenge, and made something only using matchbox-window-manager, unclutter, midori and xorg/xinit/xtools.

And - I'm controlling it all with Init.d:

#! /bin/sh
# Author: Daniel H. Hemmingsen <[email protected]>

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          fullpageos
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: FullPageOS start/stop init.d script.
# Description:       FullPageOS start/stop init.d script. Handles all the stuff needed to boot up FullPageOS. Midori is the browser, unclutter hides the mouse and matchbox-window-manager is the Window Manager.
### END INIT INFO

case "$1" in
  start)
    echo "Starting X Display in the background..."
    X :0 &
    sleep 2
    export DISPLAY=:0

    echo "Disabling annoying default X behaviour..."
    xset s off
    xset -dpms
    xset s noblank

    echo "Starting Unclutter in the background..."
    /usr/bin/unclutter &

    echo "Starting Matchbox Window Manager in the background..."
    /usr/bin/matchbox-window-manager &

    echo "Starting Midori..."
    /usr/bin/midori -e Fullscreen -a https://google.com
    ;;
  stop)
    echo "Stopping Unclutter"
    killall unclutter

    echo "Stopping Matchbox Window Manager"
    killall matchbox-window-manager

    echo "Stopping Midori"
    killall midori

    echo "Stopping Xorg"
    killall Xorg
    ;;
  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/fullpageos {start|stop}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

So now, I can simply do service fullpageos start/stop. I haven't installed the webserver yet, since this was just testing the actual FullPageOS. (Where we get content from in the browser, is something different. But simply installing this like we already do; would be a-ok.)

On my old Raspberry Pi. I could get some pretty low RAM usage. (Remember, no webserver yet. But should be fine.)

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ free -h
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          434M       192M       242M       4.9M        10M       108M
-/+ buffers/cache:        73M       361M
Swap:          99M         0B        99M

Of course, this is not done yet. I would check for $network in the script and check for if the lighttpd server is up, etc.

But what do you guys think, at least for older devices only running on ARM6? I would be happy to hear your thoughts.

...wanted to know a way on how to define a dns server.

Hey,
I tried FullPageOS image on raspberrypi 3 and it seems to boot in to the wrong GUI environment. Would be nice if anyone else could confirm this.

Hey! I think it would be cool if it could boot up an electron app.

Would it be easy to do that?

Edit

Source code is much smaller than I though it would be, looks like a fork would be appropriate for electron.

Hi,
My network conf: fullpageos-network.txt
#auto eth0:1
iface eth0:1 inet static
address 192.168.1.240
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1

Ican't connect to the PI via SSH,
I use the img:
http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/nightly/2016-05-27_2016-05-10-fullpageos-jessie-lite-0.6.0.zip

Regard from French Alps,
Emmanuel

As mentioned in #24 , the file seems to be missing. Even though the build logs syays:

18:07:34 + sed -i 's/#autologin-user=.*/autologin-user=pi/g' /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
18:07:34 + sudo -u pi /home/pi/scripts/setX11vncPass raspberry
18:07:35 sudo: unable to resolve host vagrant-ubuntu-trusty
18:07:35 spawn x11vnc -storepasswd
18:07:35 Enter VNC password: raspberry
18:07:35 
18:07:35 Verify password:    
18:07:35 Write password to /home/pi/.vnc/passwd?  [y]/n y
18:07:35 
18:07:35 + echo 'exit 0'

Current workaround is running again:

sudo -u pi /home/pi/scripts/setX11vncPass raspberry

If this is to be used for digital signage, is there a way to hide the cursor? Right now the page loads but there is a cursor right in the middle of the screen.

While using the build script I run into this error ( end of log )

Initial idea, language issue ??

Unmounting /opt/FullPageOS/FullPageOS/src/workspace/mount...
Resizing partition 2 on 2016-05-27-raspbian-jessie.img to minimal size + 200 MB
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
Stap 1: Controle van inodes, blokken, en groottes
Stap 2: Controle van mappenstructuur
Stap 3: Controle van verbindingen tussen mappen
Stap 4: Controle van verwijzingsaantallen
Stap 5: Controle van groepssamenvattingen
/dev/loop0: 92508/305824 bestanden (0.1% niet-aaneengesloten), 523896/1220096 blokken
/opt/FullPageOS/FullPageOS/src/common.sh: regel 309: * 4096: syntaxfout: operator verwacht (het onjuiste symbool is "* 4096")

Dear FullPageOS users, we'd like to showcase (and use for tests) your public dashboards. If you are running any public IoT, monitoring or whatever monitor on FullPageOS, please share it with us in the comments below and we'll use it for our tests.

Kind regards,
Tailor

Good work indeed!

What is the reasoning behind using Octoprint as base?

Thanks,

I have a brand new Raspberry Pi 3. I images my SD card using v.5 and modified the wifi config and start URL but when I boot it up, all I get is a rainbow square. This was a CanaKit which is using a 2.5A power supply so I know it has access to enough power. Any other ideas what might be going on here?

When trying to access raspberrypi.local via vnc I didn't get an answer from the raspberry pi, so I looked up the DHCP host list on my router and it seems to recognize the FullPageOS raspberry pi as host name fullpageos.

I actually tried to access it as well without success, so I tried the IP address given by DHCP and it worked.
Another problem I found is the VNC password isn't set to raspberry. I had to SSH into the pi and run
/home/pi/scripts/setX11vncPass raspberry

When accessing the pi via HTTP I got the default Apache landing page instead of the dashboard

Addendum: I found out I could connect to fullpageos.local via some clients on Win 8.1, such as FireFox and MinGW bash shell

When I open a new tab in FullPageOS and make it full screen by pressing F11 pressing F11 again to exit fullscreen does nothing.

The boot depends on sleep commands at:
https://github.com/guysoft/FullPageOS/blob/devel/src/filesystem/home/pi/scripts/run_onepageos

We could speed up boot and avoid annoying timing issues by moving stuff to ~/.xinitrc

I get a back screen with a cursor after the boot messages. I first tried changing the webpage in fullpageos.txt to no avail.

I can ssh to the Pi and can ping google from it so I know that I have internet connection to the pi.

If I kill Xorg and then try to restart the service from ./run_onepageos I get a list of several error messages that it cannot open the display.

xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
xset: unable to open display ""
matchbox: can't open display! check your DISPLAY variable.
14/01/2016 04:40:36 passing arg to libvncserver: -rfbauth
14/01/2016 04:40:36 passing arg to libvncserver: /home/pi/.vnc/passwd
14/01/2016 04:40:36 x11vnc version: 0.9.13 lastmod: 2011-08-10 pid: 953
14/01/2016 04:40:36 XOpenDisplay("") failed.
14/01/2016 04:40:36 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ...
14/01/2016 04:40:36
14/01/2016 04:40:36 *** XOpenDisplay failed. No -display or DISPLAY.
14/01/2016 04:40:36 *** Trying ":0" in 4 seconds. Press Ctrl-C to abort.
14/01/2016 04:40:36 *** 1 2 3 4
14/01/2016 04:40:40 XOpenDisplay(":0") failed.
14/01/2016 04:40:40 Trying again with XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME=localhost ...
14/01/2016 04:40:40 XOpenDisplay(":0") failed.
14/01/2016 04:40:40 Trying again with unset XAUTHLOCALHOSTNAME ...
14/01/2016 04:40:40

14/01/2016 04:40:40 ***************************************
14/01/2016 04:40:40 *** XOpenDisplay failed (:0)

*** x11vnc was unable to open the X DISPLAY: ":0", it cannot continue.
*** There may be "Xlib:" error messages above with details about the failure.

This is with the latest nightly build, I'll try the october build to see if I can get that working.

I think it might be trivial to note that I am using a Pi Zero.

Cheers.

Right now, there is only a standard locale and timezone available.

I'm working on a config extension to solve this:

$FULLPAGEOS_OVERRIDE_TIMEZONE
$FULLPAGEOS_OVERRIDE_LOCALE

pull request will follow

Is there any way to hide scrollbars globally?

We are looking to use this for digital signage and occasionally we will have a short promo video play. We are using this as a test video (https://graftechnology.com/video/) but the video is really choppy. I set the GPU_MEM to 448 since that's the max for a 1GB Raspberry Pi 3 but it's still choppy. Any ideas how to get things running smoother? Thanks!

The site with the official builds (http://docstech.net/FullPageOS/) does not have the checksums of each file. Can a checksum file be added please?

I'm running a NodeJS app on my Pi and don't have a need for lighthttpd/PHP. Is there a way to remove lighthttpd without building a FullPageOS variant?

I can do this, but is there a cleaner or recommended approach?

$ sudo apt-get remove lighttpd

Hi, I'm curious if your OS supports any sort of graphics acceleration on the Pi? I recall trying to use Chromium on an older Pi and it was painfully slow to work with. I also seem to remember some developers were working on a more modern X server that supported some of the acceleration available in the Pi's GPU or something similar.

Thanks and I'm excited to try your OS on some projects!

There seems to be a request to be able to cycle though tabs

If you open a non english web chromium opens a dialog covering the top part of the screen with options to translate. Will be great to cancel that option by default as you dont have keyboard or mouse on screen.

I am having a issue where when I try to add another tab it does not seem to load the page, it is just blank. I have tried it with multiple websites and for some reason only one website has been able to load. I can however connect through VNC with no problems and also hit F1 and log into a website that way. The site I am trying to get working is local on the network and I am adding the http:// in front of it so I know that is not the problem. Any idea on what would be causing this issue?

Thanks

I would like to bundle VNC remote connection.

I have scripts that would use x11vnc, however I am not sure how to store the password in a safe way.

Looking through the code, I noticed FullPageOS is using xdotools to move the mouse off the screen. I would just argue that unclutter would be a bit more clean - and probably more lightweight. Is xdotools used for anything else?

FullPageOS/src/filesystem/home/pi/scripts/run_onepageos

#!/bin/bash
xset s off         # don't activate screensaver
xset -dpms         # disable DPMS (Energy Star) features.
xset s noblank     # don't blank the video device

matchbox-window-manager &
unclutter &
x11vnc -many -rfbauth /home/pi/.vnc/passwd &
while true
do
    if [ $(curl -sL -w "%{http_code}\\n" "http://localhost/FullPageDashboard" -o /dev/null) == "200" ]; then
      (sleep 15 ; /home/pi/scripts/fullscreen) &
      chromium-browser --kiosk --app=$(head -n 1 /boot/fullpageos.txt)
    fi
    sleep 1
done

Anyway to disable this? Thanks

Just a little heads up, if you want to build FullPageOS yourself. You'll be missing lsof. At least if you run the latest version of the Jessie Lite version of Raspbian. (As of writing this.)

A simple sudo apt-get install lsof will fix this.

I would suggest adding this to the README.rst. At least the chroot_script will be happy then. 👍

Is there a way to remove the icon in the upper-right hand corner?

Possible solution:
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/753/7483

Tried it and waiting to see it the screen does not blank