Hide Desktop

[AlexThum]

Hello everyone,

I’m currently working on a Raspberry Pi project and want to automatically start HUDIY. My goals are:

• The Pi should launch HUDIY immediately after boot.

• No desktop environment should appear, because now the desktop will flash shortly and then hudiy will start.

• The mouse cursor should be invisible.

My questions:

• How can I completely skip the desktop, so only runs HUDIY?

• How can I make the mouse cursor invisible?

• What’s a stable way to launch HUDIY in kiosk mode directly at boot, without the desktop flashing?

[hudiy]

Hello,
Raspberry Pi desktop (pcmanfm) and the taskbar (wf-panel-pi) are launched from /etc/xdg/labwc/autostart. You can remove the lines that launch them from the file.

kanshi is still needed to manage connected displays but it does not have any UI.

If you observe desktop flashing between the splash and Hudiy startup, you can set additional delay for which the splash application will remain active. It is described in the docs at https://github.com/wiboma/hudiy/blob/ma ... .md#splash

Hudiy and splash by default hide the mouse cursor but labwc may leave its own life. On the latest Raspberry Pi OS, labwc introduced new action to hide and warp mouse cursor for selected window (https://github.com/labwc/labwc/pull/2633).

It can be added to $HOME/.config/labwc/rc.xml like:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<openbox_config xmlns="http://openbox.org/3.4/rc">
  <windowRules>
    <windowRule identifier="hudiy">
      <action name="HideCursor" />
      <action name="WarpCursor" x="-1" y="-1" />
    </windowRule>

    <windowRule identifier="splash">
      <action name="HideCursor" />
      <action name="WarpCursor" x="-1" y="-1" />
    </windowRule>
  </windowRules>
</openbox_config>

https://labwc.github.io/labwc-config.5.html
https://labwc.github.io/labwc-actions.5.html

[alex124.rh]

Hi there, for me the flash is before the splash, it’s black then a desktop flash then the splash

[hudiy]

Hi there, for me the flash is before the splash, it’s black then a desktop flash then the splash

In that case you can move running Hudiy in /etc/xdg/labwc before the pcmanfm.

[wkl3968]

It works by changing the hudiy and pcmanfm sequence as suggested

[AlexThum]

Can you make that for the next release that hudiy skips the desktop and the cursor and that it will start directly in kiosk mode?
Because when i start the Pi the desktop and the cursor will flash shrtly and then hudiy starts.

[hudiy]

Can you make that for the next release that hudiy skips the desktop and the cursor and that it will start directly in kiosk mode?
Because when i start the Pi the desktop and the cursor will flash shrtly and then hudiy starts.

Some users need a working desktop environment to perform initial setup of their installation. We also try to make as few system changes as possible during Hudiy installation. This makes updates easier and allows smooth migration to newer versions of Raspberry Pi OS. You can easily disable loading the taskbar and desktop yourself, as described in the post viewtopic.php?p=453#p453 (just remove them from etc/xdg/labwc/autostart).

If the desktop is visible between the splash screen and Hudiy loading, you can use the --delay switch in Splash to delay quitting the splash application: https://github.com/wiboma/hudiy?tab=rea ... ile#splash

[proteinklumpen]

Hey,

because of a touchscreen Issue I had, which wasn't possible to be solved using labwc, I switched to openbox as a window manager and x11. Can you tell me how I can achive this here? The labwc autostart is probably not going to be used in my case anymore

Thanks in advance

[hudiy]

Hey,

because of a touchscreen Issue I had, which wasn't possible to be solved using labwc, I switched to openbox as a window manager and x11. Can you tell me how I can achive this here? The labwc autostart is probably not going to be used in my case anymore

Thanks in advance

Looks like for X11 the equivalent is /etc/xdg/lxsession/rpd-x/autostart (Trixie).