ALT not doing anything

sdetweil · Jun 18, 2023, 3:38 PM

@ankonaskiff17 “usage”, oh you mean the DOC… hahaha…

things change way too fast

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 18, 2023, 6:58 PM

@sdetweil Hitting ALT always worked in the past and continues to work on the older MM. I don’t pull these things out of thin air. I get your point about documentation though.
You mentioned early in this conversation about that being something that is done in Electron. Electron is way beyond my knowledge level. But searching Google it seems that somewhere in Electron there is titleBarStyle and it is currently set to hidden . I haven’t a clue as to how to run that to ground but almost like someone was messing with the code trying to make a kiosk but didn’t do that locally.

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 20, 2023, 2:39 AM

@sdetweil This is in regards to auto-starting MM.
When installing NPM per the documentation, do you install at ~$ or at/MagicMirror $
It isn’t real clear because half way through that sequence it has cd ~ which you could take to mean you are installing npm at the MagicMirror level then you back up to put the auto start script at root?

I kinda-sorta think I understand what is going on with this ALT problem but I’m out of gas and will confirm in the morning.

sdetweil · Jun 20, 2023, 3:04 AM

@ankonaskiff17 npm is installed globally (-g)
effectively as root… system wide

the pm2 install for auto start is to execute the command output from the command, pm2 startup

and npm (node package manager). is what loads the dependencies listed in package.json (npm install) and then executes the command listed in the scripts section of package.json (npm start, or npm run xxxxx, see the list)

I posted the command line parms to launch chromium instead of electron, so try that and see what keyboard handling there is…

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 21, 2023, 1:28 AM

@sdetweil It’s alive.

sdetweil · Jun 21, 2023, 1:46 AM

@ankonaskiff17 which. prior, this w chromium, it’s Tuesday?

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 21, 2023, 2:17 AM

@sdetweil I took two identical Pi 4B’s, formatted them intalled 64 bit PI OS on both.
Then installed MM 2.22.0 on one and 2.23.0 on the other.
No VNC or SSH, start to finish.

2.22.0 I hit ALT (only) and the expected toolbar with VIEW then Toggle Full Screen and the Open Developer Tools come up as I am accustomed to.

2.23.0 exhibits that same unexpected behavior that started us down this road.

The whole ALT+F11 is WAY WAY beyond me but it does shrink the size of the MM overlay. Unfortunately it does not give you Open Developer Tools so that is a problem.

Beyond that, I am clueless. Why 2.22.0 works as desired and 2.23.0 doesn’t is way out beyond my level of knowledge.

I never got to the Chromium stuff you described but more than happy to run that down on the Pi with 2.23.0 on it.
Once I saw that 2.22.0 install give me what I wanted I was going see if I could repeat that.

sdetweil · Jun 21, 2023, 2:18 AM

@ankonaskiff17 yes, the electron version changed between 22 and 23…

so, we are back to the original statement… something changed in electron…

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 21, 2023, 2:33 AM

@sdetweil You won’t get any argument out of me on that score.
As I said, glad to help if I can just as long as you tell me what to do.

ankonaskiff17 · Jun 21, 2023, 3:02 AM

@sdetweil I’m calling it a wrap for today but is there a way to make the developer tools to open that is not “open developer tools”?

I did something yesterday and that launched but when you move the mouse around it is like it is behind the MM window. If it wasn’t doing that you could right click page and bring that up up.

Reason I ask is I did see some Electron errors yesterday but I’ve seen them in past so I just ignored.