[Testing] X11(simple desktop) + Chromium(web browser) in a simple installer for Stretch

Testing
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If you use osmc remote and If you click home button and this not launching virtual keyboard
open lxterm
and install any text edytor ex.gedit
open /home/osmc/.config/openbox/lxde-rc.xml
And search <!-- Keybinding for i CONTROL Xvkbd
and under
in this passege

keybind key=“Home”

change “Home” to “Escape”

beceuse Home button is probaly not defined
Because osmc remote is like a keyboard
and home button clicking Escape
Escape is defined as keyboard button
and osmc remote if you click home button sends
to your raspberry or vero Escape

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i make osmc remote script
for the best Impressions

Now i’m thinking how to change buttons actions in remote
because openbox shortcuts don’t delate first action

sorry for bad english

I have only pi 3 b+
you can download it here:

But it’s have testing status
later i remove this status for rpi 3 b+
note:First release have Work In Progress status

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Thank you for the feedback, PRs are appreciated :+1:

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I maked the auto remote detect script
To install enter to terminal

Cd /home/osmc

Wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rebokdev/owbef/patches/vmkd/installer.sh

Chmod +x installer.sh

Sudo ./installer.sh

If you found bug please make issiue on github:

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KDE Plasma has a DE version specifically for TVs, I think It could be nice to use that as a desktop for OSMC

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I will put this on the “check out for v.2.0”, no promises. Seems “semi easy to use the neon version for a conversion to OSMC-pi4”. But I can’t do a a OSMC desktop for just one HW platform, there are some good news like it’s wayland based and that makes it a bit easier for vero4k driver wise. But still have to have a deep dive into it and no time for it right now.

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Thanks, I’m happy you’re interested :slight_smile:

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Seems to be issues with X-windows and Bullseye upgrade, if you got issues. I’ve got an attempt to uninstaller.sh, in addons the github-tree. Try that, I dont have it installed on any machine I’m able to update at present.

Got two ideas to check against:

  • graphics driver is compiled against older libs(Vero 4k and +)?
  • due to distribution upgrade, the dependency of graphical login service is actuated again, but the service is disabled?
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Has anyone tried streaming from Medici.tv on Vero 2?

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If you are considering playing any video in this Xwindows solution, I recommend you drop that idea. There is no video acceleration in any OSMC hardware platform right now.

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Ok, thank you. Maybe that’s off-topic, but is there any way I can stream from a web page on vero 2 with osmc/kodi?

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hi,
got this working well on my vero4k. 3 quick questions :

  1. Is there a way of having a guest account that can auto login?
  2. is there a way of rotating the display 180’? I’ve got a portable lcd screen that I want to have running showing my server diagnostics but the connections on the screen are on the other side that makes mounting awkward.
  3. Is there a way of auto starting chromium to load up a webpage on login?

Basically I have my unraid server running and I want promethius (or some such) running showing everything I need to keep an eye on it.

Cheers!

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  1. If you look at “/home/osmc/x11-start/x_init.sh”, at line 8 you chose which user that is going to “own” the X-server session.

  2. There should be, at the moment I’m a bit unsure which route to do it, will get back to you. Been months since I had this project up and running =)

  3. Edit “/home/osmc/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart”, enter a new line at the bottom. Something like this (remember this is from memory): @chromium “http://unraid-ip:port”

Hope that helps, I will have to check how I would solve it, might be as simple as installing xrander, but I’ll have to check it out.

Goodluck

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Thanks for publishing this easy to use script! I just used it to install X11 & Chrome on my Pi4 OSMC system. It worked fine, and after enabling the X11 Launcher addon I was able to start the desktop and through it Chrome.

Before my first reboot directly after installing, I had the problem that websites complained that I’m missing DRM features in my browser, that was fixed by rebooting.

Problems I still have:

  • everything looks super tiny and I have to get really close to my 4k TV to be able to read & control the desktop → missing High-DPI scaling.
  • Videos played through websites in Chrome show me about one frame every 2-3 seconds. Very unusable unless I’m only interested in the sound, which worked fine. → missing hardware acceleration?

Does anybody have pointers for me how I can workaround / fix those issues on my Pi4?

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When it comes to hardware acceleration, i’m all out of time and ideas to get it to work in OSMC, sorry to say but I gave up when a chrome compile took almost 30 hours on my old laptop.

Dpi scaling, there was someone who had a solution earlier in the thread, I had planed to integrate it. but it has fallen n the back burner.

I moore then welcome for PR’s on github, version two is planned to have some switching between kodi and X on some platforms. But it’s for a rainy day…

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thanks, worked fine for me too on my pi4 :slight_smile: