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I turned my streaming stick into a dumb app launcher, and that's all it should be (www.xda-developers.com)
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[โ€“] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And a key mapper to go back to the launcher instead of the home screen from a remote

[โ€“] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yep, that too. Though on one of my TVs (TCL), simply disabling the inbuilt 'startupwraith' seems to have the same effect

# Disable com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx which is the default launcher on CCwGTV
$ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.apps.tv.launcherx
# com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith will then be used as a 'fallback' and will automatically
# re-enable the default launcher, so disable it as well
$ adb shell pm disable-user --user 0 com.google.android.tungsten.setupwraith