The Misadventures of Penoi

Setting up a web kiosk system using raspberrypi+raspbian+ratpoison

This instruction assumes that you already installed raspbian on your SD card

Installing required packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ratpoison
sudo apt-get chromium
sudo apt-get x11vnc
sudo apt-get install x11-xserver-utils

pi@raspberrypi:~$ grep pi /etc/inittab 
1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 

/dev/tty1 2>&1

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.bash_profile
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
startx
fi

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.xinitrc
exec ratpoison

pi@raspberrypi:~$ cat /home/pi/.ratpoisonrc
banish
exec xset s off
exec xset -dpms
exec unclutter -root
exec x11vnc -loop
exec /usr/bin/chromium --kiosk http://www.penoycentral.net

vncviewer raspberrypi.local