Questions tagged [raspberry-pi-desktop]
For question about Debian with Raspberry Pi Desktop - a operating system for PC and Mac with the Raspbian Look&Feel. Runs from a live disc, in a virtual machine, or installed on a computer.
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Auto-execute desktop shortcut problem
I have created file /home/pi/Desktop/DecoderPro.desktop with the contents
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=DecoderPro
Comment=JMRI DecoderPro
Icon=/home/pi/JMRI/resources/...
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Is it possible to record the screen and Audio on a Raspberry Pi 4 model B
I wanna record my screen and audio, Is It Possible? how to do that?
I use Raspberry Pi 4 Model B.
I still new, I hope you can help.
thanks.
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Building a Virtual machine with the .img file of the raspberry pi stretch
I would like to emulate the exact copy of my real RPi on another virtual machine. I noticed that the only working OS to build a virtual machine is the version RPdesktop. I need the specific OS version ...
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Installing Raspberry Pi Desktop on VM--small resolution
I installed Raspberry Pi Desktop on a VM on Windows, and am intrigued. However, I cannot find where/how to enlarge the display ("screen") resolution. Is is very small, and makes it difficult to do ...
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I want to build "raspberry pi " c++ code in desktop ubuntu
I have created simple c++ application program in raspberry Pi. I could build this code in raspberry pi, but I'm getting error while compiling it in my labtop "ubuntu".
My aim is to create executable ...
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What can I use to program a Raspberry Pi 3 board like an Arduino board?
I have a Raspberry Pi 3 board. I want to use it like an Arduino Uno board. My problem is very simple in that, I used 'Arduino' software to link with my Arduino Uno/Nano boards to blink LEDs. I have ...
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Running Hologram cellular network from startup issues [cannot run on rc.local or .bashrc]
I’m playing around with the hologram Nova cellular USB kit and I’m trying to create an automatic connection using the /etc/rc.local file. Hologram uses it's own way of connecting to a ppp0 network ...
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How to connect 3V3 UART logic level to the 5 V RS232 C logic level?
How to connect the 3.3 V Raspberry Pi UART logic level to the 5 volt RS232 C logic level?
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Install LTE stick from Huwei 3772h on Raspberry PI with suisse telecom
Is there a way to use a LTE on Raspberry PI or Linux in general even if there are only .exe files on that stick?
Did anyone get a LTE stick from switzerland to work with his raspberry pi?
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Raspberry Pi Desktop always launches into the first install wizard
I am installing Raspberry Pi Desktop onto a VM in Parallels. Everytime it boots up (I do select "Run with Persistance" at the start) it launches the first-time boot wizard ("Before you start using it,...
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Does Raspberry Pi Pico C/C++ SDK Setup Script work on Raspberry Pi Desktop installed on a PC?
The Raspberry Pi Pico documentation indicates "if you are intending to develop for Pico on a Raspberry Pi, then you can set up the C/C++ toolchain quickly by running our setup script from the ...
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How to stream RaspiCam video on webpage on Django server running on other PC?
Hey I wanted to stream rpi cam live footage to a webpage hosted on django server running onther Pc.Any suggestions on how to do it.Thanks.
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Show RAM usage in numbers at the top panel?
For things like CPU temperature or CPU usage, I could find plug-ins that show them in numbers. However, I could not find such a thing for RAM usage. The only thing I could find was Resource Monitor, ...
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Samsung Flip + Raspberry Pi 3
I have started to work with a brand new Samsung Flip digital paperboard (WM55H).
This device works well with my laptop (WIN10) but i would like to have another PC connected to the screen in any ...
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Permanent Arduino usb address on RPi!
So my project is using to Arduinos slaves to RPI that is master. They communicate through USB.
Each time I remove one of the Arduinos I need to modify the .Py script to add the new USB alocated.
Is ...
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Copy/paste not works in VmWare machine with raspbian
I have installed Raspberry Pi Desktop to my VmWare virtual machine hosted by windows 10.
I have also installed vmtools:
sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
But I still cant copy/paste and drag and ...
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Help need with python script for PiCamera
I am working with the Raspberry Pi camera and need some help regarding the python script. I need to capture a set of 5 images continuously every 5 minutes interval until I want it to stop. This set of ...
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An experimental distributed system with Raspberry PI
I am trying to learn distributed systems development, and thus planning to perform experiments using Raspberry PI.
I have no prior knowledge of Raspberry PI in this context. I want to know would it ...
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Ethernet communication between Raspberry Pi and Windows PC
I am working on project which involves sending datastream from Raspberry Pi to Windows PC.
This should only be done through Ethernet link.
I looked for ethernet libraries but I did not find any.
Also ...
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How to create a shortcut to a directory?
I'm trying to create a desktop shortcut that starts File Manager at a specified directory, in this case a mounted USB drive.
Here's what I have so far:
Backup.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.1
Type=...
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Connecting Raspberry Pi to SFM3520-OP fingerprint module
I want to connect an SFM3520-OP fingerprint module with the RS232C serial port to the Raspberry Pi UART but I am doubtful about their logic level. Should I use a Max2323 or does it not need it?
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Scaling down Raspbian for Adafruit PiTFT 1.14"
I want to use the Adafruit PiTFT (click here) 1.14" with the Raspbian Desktop. How can I scale the Raspbian Desktop down so that it will be normally sized on the 240x135 px screen? An example with ...
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Need troubleshoot fix my Raspberri Pi camera
So my MotionEye setup works fine, but after like 24 hours everyday, when I go connect the IP address it won't connect for some reason... And I can see that the Raspberry Pi3 and the Camera is working, ...
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Video playback on Raspberry Pi 3
I have a raspberry pi 3 connected to one of my TV's HDMI inputs. I've installed VLC, but videos won't play. The image will hang and the audio will continue to play in the background. Regardless of ...
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Boot time problem
i want to reduce boot time on my Raspberry Pi 3B+. I'm using this tutorial http://himeshp.blogspot.com/2018/08/fast-boot-with-raspberry-pi.html and i done 1,2 and 3 step. After this i reboot Pi and ...
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Run python script on Raspbian desktop through ssh access
I have a RaspberryPi with a PiTFT 3.5 display connected. The display is configured to mirror the HDMI output and the Pi is running Raspbian desktop.
Now what I am trying to do is to run a python ...
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symbol lookup error: undefined symbol: _ZN7QWidget8qwsEventEP8QWSEvent
I have cross-compiled executable file from QT 4.8.7. I am running it on a Raspberry PI (Ubuntu), with QT 4.8.7 and QT declarative module installed. When i run the executable file on my raspberry pi, i ...
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What is the value for gpu_mem using Raspbian Buster?
I have installed Raspbian Buster on a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and would like to set the gpu_mem to the value for the best performance. When I set it to 32, VLC would crash with no logged errors. After ...
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Open in Terminal in Raspbian
How can I get the "Open in Terminal" Option when I right click in Raspbian OS ?
It opens the terminal in the current directory.
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Installed Raspberry Pi Desktop on old windows laptop. Wifi and ethernet not working
Very new to this. I had an old laptop laying around and wiped out windows and installed Raspberry Pi Desktop. My Cd/dvd works. Usb ports work. But ethernet and wifi are both down.
Does anyone know ...
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Installing raspberrypi-kernel-headers: Unable to locate package raspberrypi-kernel-headers
I am Trying to install raspberrypi-kernel-headers using the command:
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers
This is done on the Ubuntu MATE 22.04.2.
But, an error message pop up in the ...
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How to get overscan working on RasPi 4?
This has been asked multiple times in multiple forums. Invariably the answer is editing /boot/config.txt. This doesn't solve the issue.
My RasPi's connected to a TV via HDMI0. The TV is one of those ...
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Help! cec-ctl and vlc fullscreen seems to be mutually exclusive
Is it possible for cec-ctl (NOT cec-client) to work with VLC fullscreen (vlc --fullscreen) from the CLI?
NOTE: I am not interested in running VLC from the Desktop. In my case, VLC is started by ...
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Create desktop shortcut to MagicMirror
I'm relatively new to Raspberry Pi but I have set up MagicMirror2 and got it running as it should. However, as this physical mirror is going to also be used as a streaming video screen I do not want ...
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Raspberry pi camera feedback question (using Yolov8 for instance segmentation)
I need some help for a project I'm doing. My project is to have my raspberry pi camera detect objects using Ultralytics Yolov8 for instance segmentation. I'm using Thonny for the python code and ...
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how can i get install raspberry pi os on hyper-v
I am trying to install raspberry pi os on hyper-v using '2022-07-01-raspios-bullseye-i386.iso.
After the VM starts, the OS install starts. When I try to connect it starts the OS install.
Using either ...
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Run python script with GUI on boot
I have set up a python script, that uses tkinter to launch a window and display some data.
My goal now is to let the Pi run this script after boot. For this, I tried many ways I found on the internet. ...
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Python code not working: Programming a motor to turn on using a switch (Raspberry Pi)
HELP! Ideally within the next 24hrs PLEASE!!!!!
We have a simple circuit where we have a button, that when pressed, starts a motor that needs to run at a certain speed for a certain amount of time. (...
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How to change the color of the desktop background programmatically?
A similar question, (How do I change the Desktop wallpaper from the cli), was asked previously where the person wanted to know how to change the wallpaper.
Going through the answers, I discovered that ...
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Raspberry Pi Pico interfacing Rpi4B / WinPC Thonny Python IDE Problem
I am new to Raspberry in general so I dont have a lot of experience with these devices.
I recently bought the raspberry pi pico and downloaded the micropython file from raspberry´s website. Everyting ...
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How can I make Raspberry Pi's Bluetooth discoverable to iPhone or iOS? [duplicate]
I've got a Raspberry Pi 4B,
when I use an Android phone to connect to the Pi with Bluetooth, it works normally, both pairing and connection.
But when I use an iPhone to do the same thing, the phone ...
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I have a mlx90614 sensor and I am interfacing it with Raspberry Pi 3 B+ it gives output -273
It works fine when I run it for the first time but once I run my LCD code then I run my MLX90614 code, it gives an output -273 after restart it will work fine(using 2 different codes for mlx90614 and ...
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Pi4/Kodi media player
I have installed **Kodi LibreELEC on a Pi4 however, I am finding it will not play .mkv or .avi only mp4
Are there any solutions out there? I don't want to convert all my movies to MP4. Thanks for any ...
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DNSMasq reporting "TOo few Arguments"
I'm trying to set up a Raspbian X86 server as a DNSMasq host.
I've got it configured but I get a error on startup, "Too few arguments."
it seems to start up "fairly" normally, but I'm assuming this ...
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GUI with tkinter, 2 buttons touched together
Have written a GUI (touchscreen) for my Pi in Python 3 with tkinter. It works in fullscreen. I do not want to have an extra button for shutting down the Pi but when I push 2 buttons together. How can ...
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How do I run AppGameKit for Pi, as it seems to be an executable file?
I am new to StackOverflow so please let me know if I am doing this wrong. I recently got a Raspberry Pi, and have played with it for a little bit. I wanted to use AppGameKit for the Pi on it, but I ...
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Official Pi Keyboard repeating characters for 1,2,q,w,a,s,z,x [closed]
I just bought the official desktop kit of Raspberry Pi 4 with 4 GB ram.
press 1 - 12 getting printed
press 2 - 12 getting printed
press q - qw getting printed
press w - qw getting printed
press a - ...
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picamera incorrect buffer length
I am currently using a pi camera module to stream video using flask and at some point, it randomly crashes. I found a similar question over here and they say that clearing the stream helped them sort ...
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How to set the USB port name in raspberry pi 3?
I'm using 2 ports such as /dev/ttyUSB0 and /dev/ttyACM0, but when I remove one of this ports and put it again, the port's identification changes. How can I force a name to my fisical port in order to ...
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Command to verify that desktop is loaded completely [closed]
What is the terminal command that verifies RaspbianOS is loaded completely? Any other command that does not return the value unless the environment is loaded is fine also?
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