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Raspberry Pi 4 autostart Chromium?
Jonathan's answer was almost how I managed to do it on my Respberry Pi 4 (running Raspbian Buster), but with some small alterations (I would've commented under his answer if I could, but not enough ...
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Change wallpaper in LXDE through terminal
You can set the Raspberry Pi desktop background with this command under Pixel (lightdm) Desktop Manager:
pcmanfm --set-wallpaper="/your/background/file"
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How do I turn off my Raspberry Pi?
If your Raspberry Pi is frozen then you can not enter to ssh or console, then this helps. I was broke my few SD cards before knew this:
Hold down both Alt+PrintScreen, and while holding those keys, ...
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How to change the clock to 12-hour format in Raspbian?
Use %I:%M %p instead
The seconds from %r are annoying and useless.
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After fresh install of Raspberry OS the menu bar is missing in tightvnc session, how to fix?
As it turns out, pulseaudio was causing this error.
I looked at /home/pi/.cache/lxsession/LXDE-pi/run.log and compared it to the same log on my other raspberry 3b+ that doesn't have the problem. The ...
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Stock Pi3 - what process is auto-mounting removable media?
The auto-mounting of USB devices in Raspberry Pi is handled by the GUI/DE (as suggested helpfully by multiple folks here), which is based on LXDE, and specifically, it's controlled by PCManFM, the ...
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Raspberry pi autostart of LXDE does not work
Yesterday I downloaded NOOBS and created a new micro SD installer. After Raspian installation everything looked OK at first until I looked at autostart. I found that the folder /home/pi/.config/...
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Is PIXEL based on LXDE or XFCE?
PIXEL is based on LXDE. The designers have remodeled the whole UI by creating new icons, windows and buttons to make it aesthetically pleasing.
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Raspbian Custom Folder Icons
You can change the appearance of the folders (and the rest of the desktop for that matter) by clicking "Theme and Appearance Settings", under preferences, in the menu. Don't see it? That's ...
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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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How to disable mouse cursor on LXDE?
Edit the file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf by, for example using nano:
# nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
First find the line xserver-command=X, you can do this in nano using:
ctrl+w xserver-command=X
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How do I turn off my Raspberry Pi?
There is multiple ways to power the pi off! Just pulling the plug without proper shutdown could corrupt your SD card!
To shutdown use sudo shutdown -now or sudo shutdown -time tell shutdown in ...
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How to modify ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panel programatically
lxpanel is based off of fbpanel. There's info on the file format at his github, and the associated project page. https://github.com/aanatoly/fbpanel
I was looking for info as well, because in the ...
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Enabling audible terminal bell/beep on wheezy
It's possible to make a shorter sound using:
( speaker-test -t sine -c 2 -s 2 -f 800 & TASK_PID=$! ; sleep 0.09 ; kill -s SIGKILL $TASK_PID ) > /dev/null
This sends a signal after 0.09 s (but ...
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Lost the start button on my pi?
The logo you are looking for is at usr/share/raspberrypi-artwork/raspitr.png
Then right click the taskbar, panel preferences, panel applets, click the "menu" applet, click preferences, and enter the ...
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How to disable mouse cursor on LXDE?
On the latest Raspbian Stitch (4.9.59-v7+), using unclutter seem the best way with simple options of relevant control. One thing I noticed is that using -idle 0 is a bad idea, and make the mouse ...
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Autolaunch Programs on LXDE startup
You should edit ~/.config/lxsession/<profile>/autostart if you have it, or make sure it is removed if you need a global LXSession configuration for all users. If you happen to have both files, ...
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Raspberry pi autostart of LXDE does not work
Three things that tripped me up:
the user's autostart overrides the global one; if you want to start everything as usual plus your custom commands, copy the default and add your commands to the end:
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Stock Pi3 - what process is auto-mounting removable media?
Use your device UUID to automount using /etc/fstab.
Simple plug-in your device:
check UUID using sudo blkid
Find your device (like /dev/sda1) and copy UUID
Write at the bottom /etc/fstab file:
UUID={...
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How can I launch a script using a global shortcut in LXDE running on RPi 3 B?
Your window manager, Openbox, handles keyboard shortcut bindings. LXDE is just your desktop environment, and doesn't actually handle drawing the windows and receiving key presses, so even though you'...
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LXDE autostart is not working
The global LXDE autostart file is ignored if there is a local autostart.
In Raspbian there is a local file: /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart.
Adding the command to that file should start ...
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LXDE autostart is not working
If using lxterminal Don't forget to set the working directory with --working-directory="/home/pi/somedirectory", specially if you try to call some program not in standard path!
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Cant find /home/pi/.config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart
In 2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch.img (and -full.img), LXDE isn't installed, so the prior trick of changing .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart to avoid screen blanking no longer works.
What does work ...
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Display IP Address on LXPanel
I have written a plugin which displays the hostname, which could be adapted. http://binnie.id.au/Downloads/hostname.tgz
You don't actually need to know the IP address hostname.local works in most ...
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WI-FI interface displayed as "device not ready" in nm-applet
If you want to use Network Manager you need to disable the default Raspbian dhcpcd network management tool. The 2 systems are incompatible.
There is no advantage in Network Manager, and it does not ...
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Bluetooth adapter can't be found after the latest upgrade of Raspbian
Are you sure the upgrade went though successfully? Try running sudo apt-get upgrade and sudo apt-get -f install and make sure they don't report any errors.
Next, I'd check if you can get a USB BT ...
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Change rpi appearance and theme settings through command line
The questioner answered his question within the question. Here is it to have a correct answer.
As suggested, I ended up going through rpi files until I found the config files I was looking for. For ...
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How to modify ~/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/panel programatically
It is indeed a pity lxpanel doesn't use a generic format for its config files.
Make a config template, and then put the required values into it using either search/replace or format specifiers (%s, {},...
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Display permanent label text in Raspberry Pi Task Bar
AFAIK there is no existing code to "display a permanent text label" although you can kludge by just changing the name of an existing plugin.
I have written a plugin to display hostname and ...
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After kernel update windows appear stuck in the corner
It is unclear exactly what you have done (or in which order) but you have done a number of questionable things.
NEVER run apt-get in interactive mode (you may miss important
prompts) - use apt which ...
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