Replacing Klipperscreen with Mainsail Interface on display
Howdy! Recently I plugged in a (huge) 10' touchscreen on the HDMI output of the raspi. While happy that it worked plug-and-play, I quite dislike the Klapperscreen interface. Everything is much larger than it should, I guess that it looks better on screens that are 7' or even 5' in size.
What I would like instead is having the Mainsail interface on the display - this is what I am used with.
I could try to kill the Klipperscreen process (sudo systemctl stop Klapperscreen) and instead start a browser with the Mainsail page in Kiosk mode....🤔
Is there somebody who did this in a more elegant way? @miklschmidt?
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You can, yes.
will stop klipperscreen from starting on boot.
For kiosk mode just follow any of the multiple raspberry pi tutorials out there.
Interesting as I did exactly this, just playing (learning how everything works) . Yes having the full interface on the machine itself is neat, but in the end you will revert. At best you'll be using a touch pen/pencil as you can't discriminate the touch screen with such small features with what will be presented on the 10" pad'
Maybe with tiny fingers, but good luck doing anything with files, or many of the macro buttons etc of Mainsail on a tiny screen. At least for me with my fat fingers, too often I'd touch the wrong thing and end up EMO'ing to correct touch errors. Seriously though, do it. Reading something is learning. Doing stuff is understanding.
Of course, this is why I do most things 😉
You are right, the Mainsail interface is a bit too crammed, but I prefer it on the 10' screen to the huge buttons of the Klipper screen
ditto...just got tired of using a touch screen pen and typing on that stupid pop up keyboard! :^)
Will have to see how it works out for me...I usually don't type anything, I mostly use the buttons and macros
@ptegler @miklschmidt Added here the step-by-step changes needed to use Mainsail on the display instead of KlipperScreen. Maybe someone else will want to follow the same road: https://github.com/Contrasens/VCore3-400-OpenFront/blob/main/Display_Mainsail_instead_of_KlipperScreen.md
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