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I am currently trying to set up a Raspberry-Pi as a very light-weight/simple monitoring solution. All it has to do is open up a web-page on boot.



Opening the web-page was easy enough. I simply put a desktop file into ~/.config/autostart with a command like:



chromium-browser --kiosk http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html


So far so good. There are two problems however:




  1. I see a toolbar stating "This page is in German. Would you like to translate it?

  2. When I unplug the R-Pi and re-plug it I get the yellow "restore session" toolbar.


I cannot figure out a way to fix this. I tried with --temp-session hoping the "restore session" would go away. Unfortunately it did not :(



I also tried with --app which did not change a thing.



Any idea how to fix that? Note that I am not fixed on chromium. It just happens to be the one browser I found which makes it easy to launch in fullscreen with a URL in once simple command.










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  • How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

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    Jan 26 at 21:57













  • It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

    – exhuma
    Jan 27 at 8:42
















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I am currently trying to set up a Raspberry-Pi as a very light-weight/simple monitoring solution. All it has to do is open up a web-page on boot.



Opening the web-page was easy enough. I simply put a desktop file into ~/.config/autostart with a command like:



chromium-browser --kiosk http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html


So far so good. There are two problems however:




  1. I see a toolbar stating "This page is in German. Would you like to translate it?

  2. When I unplug the R-Pi and re-plug it I get the yellow "restore session" toolbar.


I cannot figure out a way to fix this. I tried with --temp-session hoping the "restore session" would go away. Unfortunately it did not :(



I also tried with --app which did not change a thing.



Any idea how to fix that? Note that I am not fixed on chromium. It just happens to be the one browser I found which makes it easy to launch in fullscreen with a URL in once simple command.










share|improve this question























  • How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

    – Xen2050
    Jan 26 at 21:57













  • It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

    – exhuma
    Jan 27 at 8:42














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I am currently trying to set up a Raspberry-Pi as a very light-weight/simple monitoring solution. All it has to do is open up a web-page on boot.



Opening the web-page was easy enough. I simply put a desktop file into ~/.config/autostart with a command like:



chromium-browser --kiosk http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html


So far so good. There are two problems however:




  1. I see a toolbar stating "This page is in German. Would you like to translate it?

  2. When I unplug the R-Pi and re-plug it I get the yellow "restore session" toolbar.


I cannot figure out a way to fix this. I tried with --temp-session hoping the "restore session" would go away. Unfortunately it did not :(



I also tried with --app which did not change a thing.



Any idea how to fix that? Note that I am not fixed on chromium. It just happens to be the one browser I found which makes it easy to launch in fullscreen with a URL in once simple command.










share|improve this question














I am currently trying to set up a Raspberry-Pi as a very light-weight/simple monitoring solution. All it has to do is open up a web-page on boot.



Opening the web-page was easy enough. I simply put a desktop file into ~/.config/autostart with a command like:



chromium-browser --kiosk http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html


So far so good. There are two problems however:




  1. I see a toolbar stating "This page is in German. Would you like to translate it?

  2. When I unplug the R-Pi and re-plug it I get the yellow "restore session" toolbar.


I cannot figure out a way to fix this. I tried with --temp-session hoping the "restore session" would go away. Unfortunately it did not :(



I also tried with --app which did not change a thing.



Any idea how to fix that? Note that I am not fixed on chromium. It just happens to be the one browser I found which makes it easy to launch in fullscreen with a URL in once simple command.







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  • How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

    – Xen2050
    Jan 26 at 21:57













  • It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

    – exhuma
    Jan 27 at 8:42



















  • How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

    – Xen2050
    Jan 26 at 21:57













  • It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

    – exhuma
    Jan 27 at 8:42

















How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

– Xen2050
Jan 26 at 21:57







How are you powering it down, just switching off the power? That might corrupt the filesystem, unless it's all read-only or entirely in ram.

– Xen2050
Jan 26 at 21:57















It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

– exhuma
Jan 27 at 8:42





It's on a journaled FS so that shouldn't really be a problem.

– exhuma
Jan 27 at 8:42










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You should be able to add the two flags --disable-translate and --incognito



chromium-browser --disable-translate --kiosk --incognito http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html



Incognito mode is a funny way to make Chromium not worry about the last session when it restores from a crash.



References:
Disable Google Chrome session restore functionality



Chrome command line switches from a conversation on Stack Overflow






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    Interesting. --disable-translate was not listed in --help :)

    – exhuma
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(putting this as answer because i cant comment)



As of chromium version 60.0.3112.89, --disable-translate doesn't work anymore.



The workaround, if you have access, is to remove the lang from html tag or set it to "en".



UPDATE:



As of version 69, the previous workaround doesn't work anymore, the solution is to add this tag to the html head:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">






share|improve this answer


























  • Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 9:51













  • @Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 10:21











  • Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

    – bk138
    Jan 25 at 15:35











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You should be able to add the two flags --disable-translate and --incognito



chromium-browser --disable-translate --kiosk --incognito http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html



Incognito mode is a funny way to make Chromium not worry about the last session when it restores from a crash.



References:
Disable Google Chrome session restore functionality



Chrome command line switches from a conversation on Stack Overflow






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    Interesting. --disable-translate was not listed in --help :)

    – exhuma
    Jul 27 '13 at 18:26
















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You should be able to add the two flags --disable-translate and --incognito



chromium-browser --disable-translate --kiosk --incognito http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html



Incognito mode is a funny way to make Chromium not worry about the last session when it restores from a crash.



References:
Disable Google Chrome session restore functionality



Chrome command line switches from a conversation on Stack Overflow






share|improve this answer





















  • 1





    Interesting. --disable-translate was not listed in --help :)

    – exhuma
    Jul 27 '13 at 18:26














9












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You should be able to add the two flags --disable-translate and --incognito



chromium-browser --disable-translate --kiosk --incognito http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html



Incognito mode is a funny way to make Chromium not worry about the last session when it restores from a crash.



References:
Disable Google Chrome session restore functionality



Chrome command line switches from a conversation on Stack Overflow






share|improve this answer















You should be able to add the two flags --disable-translate and --incognito



chromium-browser --disable-translate --kiosk --incognito http://192.168.1.23/monitor.html



Incognito mode is a funny way to make Chromium not worry about the last session when it restores from a crash.



References:
Disable Google Chrome session restore functionality



Chrome command line switches from a conversation on Stack Overflow







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Interesting. --disable-translate was not listed in --help :)

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Jul 27 '13 at 18:26





Interesting. --disable-translate was not listed in --help :)

– exhuma
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(putting this as answer because i cant comment)



As of chromium version 60.0.3112.89, --disable-translate doesn't work anymore.



The workaround, if you have access, is to remove the lang from html tag or set it to "en".



UPDATE:



As of version 69, the previous workaround doesn't work anymore, the solution is to add this tag to the html head:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">






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  • Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 9:51













  • @Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 10:21











  • Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

    – bk138
    Jan 25 at 15:35
















2














(putting this as answer because i cant comment)



As of chromium version 60.0.3112.89, --disable-translate doesn't work anymore.



The workaround, if you have access, is to remove the lang from html tag or set it to "en".



UPDATE:



As of version 69, the previous workaround doesn't work anymore, the solution is to add this tag to the html head:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">






share|improve this answer


























  • Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 9:51













  • @Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 10:21











  • Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

    – bk138
    Jan 25 at 15:35














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(putting this as answer because i cant comment)



As of chromium version 60.0.3112.89, --disable-translate doesn't work anymore.



The workaround, if you have access, is to remove the lang from html tag or set it to "en".



UPDATE:



As of version 69, the previous workaround doesn't work anymore, the solution is to add this tag to the html head:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">






share|improve this answer















(putting this as answer because i cant comment)



As of chromium version 60.0.3112.89, --disable-translate doesn't work anymore.



The workaround, if you have access, is to remove the lang from html tag or set it to "en".



UPDATE:



As of version 69, the previous workaround doesn't work anymore, the solution is to add this tag to the html head:
<meta name="google" content="notranslate">







share|improve this answer














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  • Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 9:51













  • @Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 10:21











  • Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

    – bk138
    Jan 25 at 15:35



















  • Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 9:51













  • @Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

    – exhuma
    Jan 30 '18 at 10:21











  • Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

    – bk138
    Jan 25 at 15:35

















Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

– exhuma
Jan 30 '18 at 9:51







Thanks for the input. I've upvoted you, and with luck you may comment now ;) Not sure how much is needed...

– exhuma
Jan 30 '18 at 9:51















@Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

– exhuma
Jan 30 '18 at 10:21





@Pierre.Vriens Unfortunately not. The project I originally needed this for is no longer in production.

– exhuma
Jan 30 '18 at 10:21













Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

– bk138
Jan 25 at 15:35





Yeah, I can confirm that this is not working anymore with Chromium 71.

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