Kiosk mode not surviving reboot

Srdrgz

Prior to using the experimental version, I updated ES and RetroPie all to the latest versions and still had the same problem. I thought the experimental version might be do the trick to no avail.

I'll try what you suggested anyway and thank you for your response.

mitu

@srdrgz Well, if you already used the stable version and had Kiosk mode enabled with this problem, I don't know if you need to go back and try again. I though you tried the -dev branch just to get the Kiosk/Kids mode features.

Srdrgz

@mitu

I tried the - dev branch because the stable version wasn't working properly and I thought the - dev branch might be a newer version. Although, I suspected it was not.

Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Srdrgz

Another problem I'm having with kiosk mode is that I can't exit kiosk with the Konami code from within emulationstation.

Thanks again for the help

Zigurana

@srdrgz
To unlock, what type of controller are you using?

Srdrgz

@zigurana

Xbox 360 with wireless receiver

Zigurana

@srdrgz said in Kiosk mode not surviving reboot:

@zigurana

Xbox 360 with wireless receiver

This is a known issue. There is a fix for that coming up in the dev/experimental branch, as soon as this PR is accepted

Zigurana

Regarding the UI mode not sticking, can you

set the UI mode to kiosk
exit emulationstation with a keyboard by pressing F4
check the content of the emulationstation settings file (/home/pi/.emulationstation/es_settings.cfg), especially the lines about UIModes?

pjft

I think the file name is named "es_settings.cfg".

Cjax08

@zigurana I know I can comment on this. I am having the same problem with the newest version of the master branch. If I set kiosk mode from the menu it will change to kiosk until I do a reboot, then it will be in Full mode. If I close ES and change the es_settings.cfg to “Kiosk” and save, then it will load up to kiosk and stay in kiosk after many reboots. However, whenever I change the mode back to Full from the menu then the cycle starts all over with all changes being temporary until a reboot.

Srdrgz

Changing the setting to "kiosk" in es_settings.cfg worked for me. I also removed the retropie menu from where the emulators are selected, to prevent any other accidental changes.

edmaul69

@srdrgz before getting rid of retropie menu, did you go into runcommand and disable joystick or disable it competely so someone cant change emulator and video settings?

Srdrgz

@edmaul69
Yes, I disabled that too. This retropie was a gift to my brother. So, tried to make it as streamlined as possible. I think the only other change I made was that i remapped the general input of mame to not allow access to the mame settings, within a game, with a gamepad. It can now only be accessed by pressing tab on a keyboard.

Come to think of it, is there a way to disable access retroarch settings, while in a game? Currently, if I press select and x on my controller it will bring up the retroarch settings menu. I'd like to disable that menu without remapping any gamepad buttons.

Edit: I think I found the answer to my question in the retroarch configuration wiki. I think if I comment out the line of code that toggles the RGUI then that should. However, I can't test it because I already gave it to my brother.

pjft

How are you exiting/resetting RetroPie?

EDIT: Also, when you set "Kiosk mode", can you then open a SSH session (or exit ES) and look into es_log.txt, see if there's a line stating "Setting UI mode to <mode you selected>". And in that thread, check the contents of the settings file after changing it in ES and exiting ES.

jcook84

@pjft
I have the same problem. Both the standard menu shutdown and a power button script shutdown have the same result. (Edit: ES-Dev)

edmaul69

@jcook84 if you change the emulationstation theme do you lose that on reboot as well? If so you might need to fix the permissions for the emulationstation folder. I had this issue.

jcook84

@edmaul69
Theme selection is persistent. Still no luck with with having Kiosk setting hold through the reboot. Not a huge deal because it will remain if I edit the es_settings.cfg; Ideally, I'll be the only one in the house using full UI anyway

jcook84

@srdrgz
I typically edit the unwanted Retroarch hotkey combos out of the controller configs in /retroarch-joypads/.

edmaul69

@jcook84 i do this as well. I also add disc eject, disc next and disc prev to the individual controller configs for famicom disc system and psx.

jcook84

@edmaul69
Good idea!

So I edited es_settings.cfg to my liking (kiosk UI, snes-mini theme, ect...) then I used "chattr" to lock it ALL down. I can switch to full UI and do whatever I need to do, but after a restart it reverts back to kiosk.
locking:
sudo chattr +i es_settings.cfg
to unlock it:
sudo chattr -i es_settings.cfg