Deinstallation; Manual Start/Stop Of Chromium; Kiosk"-Mode; Conﬁguration - GARZ&FRICKE GUF-Yocto-34.0-r5756-0-VINCELL User Manual

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Note: Installing multiple different versions at the same time on a system is currently not supported, i.e. if you want

to install a different version than you already may have installed on your device, you must deinstall the previous

version ﬁrst.

5.1.2 Deinstallation

Chromium can easily be deinstalled using rpm. Please note that it must be currently running on the device

otherwise the rpm-command will fail.

$ rpm -e chromium

5.1.3 Manual Start/Stop of Chromium

You can start and stop Chromium during runtime with the following commands:

$ /etc/init.d/chromium stop

$ /etc/init.d/chromium start

5.1.4 "Kiosk"-Mode

For normal application use Chromium is conﬁgured to start in so-called "kiosk"-mode. This means that it runs

in full-screen mode without displaying the regular browser GUI, e.g. navigation buttons, URL-bar, access to the

Chromium menu, etc. Only your webpage and, if necessary, scroll-bars are displayed.

For development or testing purposes you may want to use Chromium in normal-mode showing the navigation

bar. You can temporarily do so by ﬁrst stopping Chromium, as described above, and then calling it manually with

any URL(s) and command-line options you like, e.g.:

$ /etc/init.d/chromium stop

$ Chromium http://www.google.com

This will temporarily re-start Chromium with the full GUI. Note that upon reboot of the system it will automatically

start in Kiosk-mode again.

5.1.5 Conﬁguration

The Chromium packages shipped by Garz & Fricke load the Garz & Fricke webpage by default. This is

URL:

intended for ﬁrst demonstration purposes only, of course, and may be changed to a different URL of your choice

with the following command:

$ echo "<Your URL>" >/etc/chromium.conf

$ sync

E.g. to re-conﬁgure the Garz & Fricke website as default URL to be opened, execute:

$ echo "http://www.garz-fricke.com" >/etc/chromium.conf

$ sync

Command-Line Options:

conﬁgurated by default, please modify the ﬁle

command-line option if you want Chromium to automatically start in normal-mode with the navigation-bar

kiosk

enabled.

Supplying command-line options to the

line options by starting Chromium manually, though, e.g.:

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If you want Chromium to start with different command-line options than we have

/etc/init.d/chromium

/etc/init.d/chromium start

accordingly, e.g. you may remove the

call is not supported. You may test command-

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