Chromium exit code -5

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-05-19

While running Chromium with chromium-browser –display=:0 https://www.picockpit.com will allow you to start Chromium from an SSH connection (and it will output to the main display in the X Server), this will fail when you try to run it with subprocess.Popen in Python: “command”: [“chromium-browser”, “–display=:0”, “https://picockpit.com”] (this is part of the JSON format I have…

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secure command execution with Python: subprocess.Popen

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-05-15

Security is important for me while developing the picockpit-client. The following applies to Linux systems (but probably is applicable to all Unix like systems, including macOS) Python allows to run external commands using the subprocess module. import subprocess In the upcoming version of PiCockpit, users will be able to create their own buttons (simply editing…

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