Open chromium on boot

Question

I'm trying to open chromium when the Raspberry Pi 3B+ boots. I've found this post, but my raspberry doesn't seem to have the /home/pi/.config/lxsession folder.

I tried creating the autostart file but It it won't work:

sudo nano /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

Any clues?

@Ephemeral It opens chromium, but it shows a message on the browser that says something like Unsupported command-line flag: –no-sandbox. If I follow your tutorial but I remove the no-sandbox flag it won't open. — Mikel Granero, Jun 23 '19 at 13:20
@Ephemeral Not working. How would be the full ExecStart= line? — Mikel Granero, Jun 23 '19 at 15:46

Ephemeral · Answer 1 · 2019-06-27T21:11:21.967

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With System Unit file:

[Unit]
Description=Start Chromium
After=graphical.target
Wants=graphical.target

[Service]
User=pi
Group=pi
ExecStart=/bin/bash -c "export DISPLAY=:0; /usr/bin/chromium-browser https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com 2>/tmp/startup-error-chromium;"

[Install]
WantedBy=graphical.target

edited Jun 27 '19 at 21:11

answered Jun 23 '19 at 17:18

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