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I want to open a website on startup and use as less as possible from the GUI. I have chromium installed so the command to run the website would be.

chromium-browser --kiosk URL

But how can I put it into auto start (crontab might work) and how to start less of the GUI (using LXDE) to save resources.

Thanks for your help.

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    Put your command in `/etc/rc.local` – Rahul Dec 03 '16 at 11:02
  • Could you set init= in the kernel line in grub? Random guess. – Kyle H Dec 03 '16 at 11:24
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    You might dig a bit deeper into how [lightdm](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LightDM) works as you will need a display manager. There you might define your own "greeter" to start only chromium (see [Write a lightdm greeter](http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/?p=5). Alternatively, configure lightdm for autologin and configure the user session for only running chromium. – ridgy Dec 03 '16 at 16:36

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This Question is asked completely differently but has the same answer How can I add new autostart programs in Lubuntu?

But in your case you would need to find a line in the .desktop file for chromium found in /usr/share/applications and change the exec line to chromium-browser --kisok URL

Although keep in mind starting LXDE will start lxpanel which I am not sure will be what you want with a kisosk.

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