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DOCS: Pi Kiosk instructions don't work as written
I set up a new pi as a kiosk tonight. I found that the commands to set up the autostart don't work as written. I found that the command shown to create the directory fails because .config doesn't exist. I had to do it in two steps mkdir ~/.config mkdir ~/.config/autostart
Then the following line to copy the file is formatted incorrectly. It replaces the autostart folder with the file. It has an extra slash in the middle and is missing the trailing slash. Instead it should be: cp /usr/share/derbynet/autostart/kiosk.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
mkdir -p ~/.config/autostart
-p, --parents no error if existing, make parent directories as needed, with their file modes unaffected by any -m option
oh I figured it out. I was just reporting it because the docs should probably be adjusted for others benefit. This was on a fresh pi os installation. So that folder won't be there. Another thing worth mentioning is that if you're just going to be using the pi as a kiosk, you can install the derbynet extras package without installing derbymet.