YouTube

This tile opens YouTube’s TV (leanback) site in a kiosk browser window: big tiles, a d-pad, no desktop chrome. It is the fifth tile on the screenshot home screen.

Config

entries:
  - title: YouTube
    subtitle: TV
    command: [firefox, --kiosk, https://www.youtube.com/tv]
    restoreOnExit: false

--kiosk is a full-screen window with no address bar. youtube.com/tv is the leanback UI meant for televisions.

restoreOnExit: false is recommended. If Firefox is already running, firefox <url> often hands the address to that process and exits, which would otherwise bring the launcher straight back.

Chromium and Chrome accept the same idea:

    command: [chromium-browser, --kiosk, --app=https://www.youtube.com/tv]
    restoreOnExit: false

If Firefox is a Flatpak

    command: [flatpak, run, org.mozilla.firefox, --kiosk, https://www.youtube.com/tv]
    restoreOnExit: false

The Flathub id is org.mozilla.firefox.

Notes

  • The icon is looked up as YouTube.

  • Sign-in and cookies stay in the browser profile, not in BiscuitTin.

  • Hold Guide to return to the launcher without closing the browser.

  • To leave kiosk YouTube itself, quit the browser (for example kbd:[Alt+F4] or Firefox’s exit), or use the session’s usual close shortcut.

  • Output is appended to ~/.cache/biscuittin/youtube.log.