General discussion • Bookworm12 / Wayland kiosk mode?

Apologies if I've missed some glaringly obvious post or guide or article or wiki or git or carrier pigeon but I'm trying to move a CM4-Bullseye based kiosk system into Bookworm (12) with the new default Wayland setup and seem to hit information vacuums around a few basic issues;

1st is the basic setup of kiosk mode - prevent the task panel from loading & hide the mouse pointer, I have so far found no way of doing this other than "Downgrade to X11" or downloading tweaks/hacks such as Wayfire addons... this feels like it should be a solved problem by now for a product like the Pi.

Next is autostarting something at boot - every guide I find refers to older builds, recommends downgrading to X11, or just doesn't work. Again, I would think this should be a solved problem now.

Even our own rockstar Thargrol's guides seem to have been obsoleted by the new hotness:

6.2 When The Full Desktop Is Not Required
I have yet to find an easy, safe, and reliable method to do this under wayland/wayfire. My recommendation is that you switch from Wayland to X11

Given how many Pi's and CM's end up in commercial products it seems odd that this should still be hard to do (or hard to find up-to-date info on) - or have I missed some big neon sign marked "Kiosk mode is here you prat"?

It's especially odd given that Raspberry Pi are usually excellent with documentation & how-to's but I'm coming up blank / deprecated on all fronts.

Statistics: Posted by John_U — Tue Dec 03, 2024 3:43 pm

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