Preventing Screen Blanking
After searching and finding a lot of suggestions, the correct answer is:
- Run apt-get install xscreensaver to install xscreensaver
- From the app menu, go to preferences... screensaver
- Select Disable Screensaver
Automatically launching a GUI app
This one was a little weird, but apparently there's a standard on this nowadays? Since PIXEL uses LXDE, These instructions are correct, reproduced below in a more consise fashion:
- Edit the file at ~/.config/autostart/.desktop (creating one if necessary)
- Create an entry like so:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Exec=app
Where app is what you would run from the command line. - Save the file and restart to test. (I had difficulty with running bash scripts or compound command lines from here [i.e. sleep 1; chromium-browser --kiosk http://url.url/url], so experimenting is key)