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I know that Chromium can be started in kiosk mode with the flag --kiosk in the terminal. However, when Chromium is begun, it is in a regular windowed mode. Kiosk mode isn't enabled until the user presses F11 or fullscreens the window another way. How can Chrome automatically be fullscreened and in kiosk mode after the command is executed in the terminal?
Jack Guy
Posted 2013-12-31T21:38:50.747
Reputation: 167
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What you want is to programmatically press F11, and that's possible with xdotool: it can emulate key-presses and do many other things too.
The solution is to create a shell script (or just one-liner), which runs chromium in background, sleeps a few seconds and then virtually presses F11:
chromium-browser --kiosk & sleep 5; xdotool key F11
That can also be done as a multi-liner (save this, for example, as chromium-kiosk.sh):
chromium-browser --kiosk &
sleep 5
xdotool key F11
Risto Salminen
Posted 2013-12-31T21:38:50.747
Reputation: 167
1chromium-browser -kiosk --start-fullscreen – micke – 2015-02-08T16:50:27.917
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As some answer on askubuntu suggests, do the following:
– Risto Salminen – 2013-12-31T21:50:08.050chromium-browser --kiosk; sleep 5; xdotool key F11.That won't work, actually. No command after chromium-browser --kiosk is executed. – Jack Guy – 2013-12-31T22:54:26.523
1Ah, of course! I forgot that you should put
&afterchromium-browser --kioskso it runs on background, and then it should work. You'd also try the actual suggestion of the answer I linked:chromium-browser --start-maximized &; sleep 5; xdotool key F11. – Risto Salminen – 2014-01-01T07:14:04.810