I have a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian via the NOOBS installer.
I recently installed RetroPie on top of Raspbian with the setup script retropie_setup.sh
. This allows me to start EmulationStation from the terminal by running emulationstation
.
Now I want to add a desktop shortcut to launch EmulationStation directly from Raspbian. I tried to create a shortcut myself as emulationstation.desktop
, but running the shortcut had no effect.
[Desktop Entry]
Name=EmulationStation
Comment=Desktop shortcut for EmulationStation
Exec=emulationstation
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Application;Game;
A guide on RobbysWeb.com suggested closing the desktop with Exec=pkill Xorg
. However, this method only works if EmulationStation is already running in the background.
How can I create a desktop shortcut to EmulationStation/RetroPie from Raspbian?