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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)...
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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={...
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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 ...
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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
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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)....
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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.
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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.
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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....
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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 +
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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=...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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What is the best/recommended way to do simple full-screen GUI custom drawing?
Most likely, you'll need to pick a language and a graphics library or GUI toolkit.
The way that the GUI is rendered on a Linux system is relatively simple, once you understand what each part does. ...
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Is there a python picam gui out there?
Yes, there are various GUI tools that can control the Pi Camera without having to mess with the code yourself. One such example is PiCameraApp by Billwilliams1952 (available on GitHub). It is ...
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GUI wifi manager for Raspberry Pi
According to the raspberry forum, the equivalent of wifimanager for RPi is the comitup, it's still in development, but works like a wifimanager.
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Java headless or headful?
Java should only throw that exception if you deal with gui components (like Swing). check all your imports for javax.swing and make sure you don't reference any.
also, don't use javaw to run it, use ...
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How can I remove the GUI from Raspbian/Debian?
$ apt-get --purge remove 'x11-*'
$ apt-get --purge autoremove
The first command removes many X11 packages, including the X11 core libraries. Since all other X11 packages (transitively) depend on the ...
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Auto-login on desktop no working method found yet
I faced similar problem and resolved it using following
sudo apt-get install --reinstall lxsession
I got a hint about this from .xsession-errors file.
The error in this file was
/usr/bin/x-session-...
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Black screen brand new raspberry 3
sudo raspi-config
Expand Filesystem
Boot option > Desktop Autologin
I don't know why but problems solved
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Creating custom Linux for Raspberry Pi
What you are saying is that you are wanting to create you own Desktop Environment, like LXDE, XFCE, Gnome or KDE. Start by reading this related thread. I recommend you stick with a headless Raspbian ...
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