34
votes
TightVNC connection refused
I know this was asked a long time ago, but I found an solution to this problem.
If you start it using display :1 (or something more than 0), you have to enter the IP like this: 192.168.x.x:590<...
- 441
13
votes
Accepted
PyQt5 on a Raspberry Pi
OK... I managed to get this to work. This is what I did.
QT Core needs to be installed with
sudo apt-get install qt5-default
You'll need to copy over sip and PyQt5 to your Raspberry Pi (I used SFTP)...
- 497
12
votes
Accepted
How to boot into own python script (GUI) only?
For the past month or so I've been working on basically the exact same thing, so I've researched how to do this a lot and know how to do it with the latest version of Raspbian (PIXEL).
nodm is a ...
- 418
12
votes
Pi 3 cannot connect to Enterprise WiFi using GUI
Turns out it is just the GUI that does not support WPA2 Enterprise. Was able to connect to those grayed-out networks by manually modifying /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as follows:
network={...
- 301
11
votes
PyQt5 on a Raspberry Pi
In Raspbian Stretch Lite the following worked for me:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qt5-default pyqt5-dev pyqt5-dev-tools
- 111
8
votes
How to printscreen on Raspberry Pi?
Just use the Print Screen key on your keyboard that will save a PNG image in your home directory (/home/pi) of the whole desktop.
- 81
8
votes
Project text-to-speech for a blind parent
I am not sure how to make the gui, but I know how to do text-to-speech. You can use espeak:
sudo apt-get install espeak
espeak 'Hello world'
By default, espeak's voice is hard to understand (for me)....
- 422
7
votes
How can I remove the GUI from Raspbian/Debian?
There is now also an X-less image by the foundation named Raspbian Jessie Lite: https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/
And if you want an installer which installs only a minimal system, ...
- 809
7
votes
Project text-to-speech for a blind parent
I only have limited experience with XBMC but strongly believe that that might already be over-complicated for 'the target audience' (this 90-year old woman).
However, I believe that this project is ...
- 275
7
votes
The size of the font, icon, and everything else in GUI of RPi
Go to 'Appearance Settings' (Start menu / Preferences).
In the tab 'Default' you can change settings to large, medium and small screens.
Setting it to 'large screen' should make everything bigger.
- 3,322
6
votes
Accepted
How do I boot the RPi into a python GUI instead of Raspbian desktop?
Non-GUI script
If I want to start any non GUI script, I prefer putting it in rc.local as by the time rc.local gets executed, everything is up by then (network, mysql and any other services like ...
- 2,803
6
votes
Accepted
What is the name of the GUI that comes with the standard raspbian distribution?
The default from the last (2015-09-24), and as far as I am aware all previous, Raspbian images is indeed LXDE. This may depend on you running raspi-config, but both the "Desktop GUI" choices there ...
- 56.1k
6
votes
Error when attempting to create Python GUI using Tkinter: "no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable"
I solved it with these two commands:
export DISPLAY=0.0
xhost +
- 61
5
votes
Linux terminal on OpenELEC?
Yes you can ssh to it or use app launcher to get a terminal but there is not much point as there is not even a package manager. For that reason I use OSMC because it's closer to a normal Debian.
- 2,167
5
votes
How can I remove the GUI from Raspbian/Debian?
Jessie Raspbian took a different but similar path as other answers here.
# First the jre needs X (boo!) so switch that out to a headless version
sudo apt-get install -y openjdk-7-jre-headless
# Next ...
- 151
5
votes
Accepted
GUI over SSH problem
You have to use Upper-case X not a lower case x
ssh -X
to enable X11 tunneling over SSH.
Also on host you are connecting from do:
export DISPLAY=<ip of your host from where you ssh from>:...
- 1,264
5
votes
GUI for Pi - Python or Java
You won't see a big difference either way; GUI applications are actually not CPU intensive. Or at least, the GUI part of them is not; they may or may not be doing other things that are. To qualify ...
- 56.1k
5
votes
Boot into the GUI after changing default user
As of Raspberry Stretch you can simple login to youruser and call
sudo -s
raspi-config
and in the Boot Options Menu "B" under "B1/B2" you'll find
.. automatically logged in as 'youruser' user
will ...
- 203
5
votes
Error when attempting to create Python GUI using Tkinter: "no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable"
Here is my solution. This works for SSH terminal, or crontab:
import Tkinter
import sys
import os
if os.environ.get('DISPLAY','') == '':
print('no display found. Using :0.0')
os.environ....
- 51
5
votes
Running a webpage on startup
to hide all output while booting you can boot "silent". this means all output will be redirected to tty3.
edit /boot/cmdline.txt !! every thing need to be in one line!!
dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=...
- 852
5
votes
Need help running games on a pi
I had a look at the example game you linked, and it looks to be an issue of processor architecture.
Your Pi has an ARM processor, which requires programs to be compiled specifically for ARM, whereas ...
- 6,198
5
votes
Accepted
RASPBERRY PI Error Python GUI : “no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable”
this error usually happens when you access the RPI via SSH,
you could run:
export DISPLAY=0:0
or add it to your bashrc if you want it to be perminantly excuted on every therminal run and ssh ...
- 166
5
votes
Is React / Web or Python the way to create UIs for Raspberry Pi kiosks?
Personally, I myself would select a desktop app, but as for 'the best', there is none. However, I can say a few things:
Raspbian (or whatever you decide on) works with Linux, specifically Debian. ...
- 101
4
votes
Boot into the GUI after changing default user
I had changed the pi user name and disabled the root account password, then followed direction in the previous answer including the suggested edit to this:
sed /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf -i -e "s/^#...
- 41
4
votes
Accepted
Raspbian GUI Headless
To answer the question in the comment, yes there is also a way. After you flash the image onto the SD card, locate the config.txt file. Open it in a text editor, I suggest Notepad++.
Find and change "...
- 190
4
votes
Raspbian GUI Headless
If your Pi is set up to boot to the desktop, it will start X even if no display is connected.
You can run this command to run the config utility:
sudo raspi-config
and go into the option for boot ...
- 1,411
4
votes
Recommended GUI toolkit for Python development on the Raspberry Pi
I did a wee bit of time with Tkinter 15 years ago, then a few years later I did something with wx. While I was able to get stuff done, I found them a both a bit tedious. I don't know how much the ...
- 161
4
votes
Project text-to-speech for a blind parent
I have done some light digging for you since most things can become overly complex fairly quickly for your target audience.
From my personal experience, buttons and gui's (no matter how simple in ...
- 1,617
4
votes
Can't load gui with Raspbian
Jesse Lite does not include the GUI it is just the core OS. Thus when you put in your username and password you get the terminal. This is very useful for headless servers that you can communicate with ...
- 231
4
votes
Accepted
Hiding boot screen for kiosk usage
I've found the solution.
If you want to remove the 4 raspberry logos on startup:
- Open the file /boot/cmdline.txt.
- Add a space and logo.nologo to the end.
If anybody wants to remove the Pixel ...
- 81
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible