I don’t want to use Osmc or LibreELEC. What I’m going for is something like Android TV (tried using LineageOS but that didn’t work out for me).

I was interested in something like Plasma Bigscreen but most of the tutorial is about 4 years old and point to using an old image.

I installed the Debian package. After that, I logged in and set Automatic login, and switch the session to Plasma Bigscreen (x11). After applying and a reboot, it launched Plasma Bigscreen but some widgets (like the audio, KDE Connect) froze when clicking on them.

What do you recommend? I prefer to use a Raspberry Pi.

  • BumbleBearOP
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    202 months ago

    That looks amazing! Are the icons you have there, for example, Netflix, is that a desktop shortcut to open up the browser and load the website?

    Your use case is very similar to mine. Thank you for sharing.

    • @chronicledmonocle
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      102 months ago

      It loads the web page in full screen kiosk mode in Chrome.

      • @AndrewZabar
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        22 months ago

        You could also always nativefier it and make it like a webapp. I have some sites setup like that on my machine.

        • @chronicledmonocle
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          22 months ago

          Does that offer any advantages over the kiosk mode functionality? Looks like that repo was abandoned in 2023 and marked as archived.

          • @AndrewZabar
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            22 months ago

            What repo? Use npm to get nativefier, the one from regular apt etc. are not current, they’re copies of older versions. Dunno why someone did that.