Building a Custom Perspective Kiosk on Linux Hardware

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Sorry, I should probably put more info as to what I have done.

The screen is on the DSI-2 port, res is 1280x800 at 40Hz, so I used "video=DSI-2:1280x800M@40,rotate270". This didn't work for me either.

In the config.txt file I have also tried lcd_rotate=3, but also didn't work :frowning:

Everything on my display is the correct orientation (boot splash screen, terminals, desktop etc.) except the kiosk screen. I think it is more to do with the dtoverlay driver that Edatec is using for the screen as they have a custom interface board between the pi and LCD.

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Maybe have a look at this. If your terminal rotates, the cmdline works, if Ubuntu frame does not, you need to use orientation in wayland

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Not sure if anyone will ever have the same issue, but I followed what David suggested and was able to use this page to help. Thanks heaps :heart:

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Thought I would drop a link here to my tutorial regarding my recent experiments with a Chromium-based kiosk for Raspberry Pi.

How To: Perspective Kiosk for Rasberry Pi - Ignition - Inductive Automation Forum

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I feel like it is so easy now to get a great quality kiosk running on very little hardware these days.
IT departments have been very happy when there are no M$ based machines on the floor and also nothing that has poor implementations of on screen keyboards.
I definitely appreciate the effort you went to on the benchmarking, it is pretty thorough.
With the Webkit/Chromium, there are a few drawbacks with running just Chromium, one of which is lack of H.264 and similar codecs. Also somewhere I was seeing people with rendering issues on some Perspective pages.

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