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mastodon linux nerds: what's the simplest/easiest/least-frills way to get a full screen chromium kiosk running under x11?

use case: playing videos on my TV

x11 required because chromium doesn't really support wayland, and since chromium is the only app running, it makes sense to run it under x11 natively rather than xwayland

I already have it working under a barebones xfce4 desktop, but there's an annoying 8 second delay between the desktop session starting and chromium starting which I don't particularly care to spend the effort tracing down

tried to run chromium bare with no window manager, but this way it only wanted to occupy half the screen and I couldn't figure out how to make it actually size to the full screen dimensions

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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@hailey But it makes perfect sense to use XWayland even just for X11 clients, it's the best supported X11 stack these days. There are even XWayland-only compositors out there.

For this use case, I'd probably just use cage.

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