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How do I upgrade Raspbian Lite to Raspbian PIXEL?
From a fresh install of Jessie Light, and after an apt-get update you can do:
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends xserver-xorg xinit
The PIXEL GUI:
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods
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How to remove thermometer in Raspbian 8 jessie PIXEL
I don't think that should be happening. There is an explanation of the thermometer icon here updated last month, and it says it comes on halfway at 80°C, when the CPU should begin throttling due to ...
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How do I change screen resolution in Pixel?
You can change the display resolution graphically (without using Terminal) on Raspbian GNI/Linux 8 (jessie) using following window.
Application Menu > Preferences > Raspberry Pi Configuration > ...
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How do I change screen resolution in Pixel?
Edit the settings in /boot/config.txt. See http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Video for additional information.
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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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Black screen using VNC with Raspbian Lite
You have discovered a "feature" of the Raspbian Lite OS. The way Raspbian Lite differs from Raspbian is it has no GUI, (Graphical User Interface).
So when you try to VNC into the Pi, you are going ...
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remove services text from pixel splash screen
Just remove the last lines within the /usr/share/plymouth/themes/pix/pix.script file or comment them out:
#message_sprite = Sprite();
#message_sprite.SetPosition(screen_width * 0.1, screen_height * 0....
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Raspberry pi powering issues
In the right top corner of the connected lcd screen, there is a small yellow thunder icon constantly. What does it stand for and more importantly, how to turn it off?
Connect to an adequate supply! ...
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Which printer driver do I use? I386 or amd64?
Which printer driver do I use? I386 or amd64?
Neither. "i386" is also known as x86; "amd64" is also known as x86-64.
All Pi's are ARM variants, and not compatible with the x86 ISAs. The Pi 3 is ...
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Restore Panel Items
Those old HowTos probably don't work anymore, because Raspbian just changed it's desktop environment to pixel.
To restore the content of your Application Launch Bar (that's the name of the area ...
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Determine whether Jessie-Lite version is with GUI(Pixel) or not
One possible way would be to check if the raspberrypi-ui-mods package is installed, which should give a good clue on whether the Pi has Pixel installed. This is possible by running for example apt ...
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Delete software and could not log to PIXEL anymore
You shouldn't delete python and python3 on the Raspberry Pi unless you are really sure what you are doing. A lot of components in Raspbian/Noobs etc. are written in the Python language and thus, like ...
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How can I add custom application launchers to the panel?
Do the following
Click on the raspberry menu button.
Select Preference [Main Menu Editor]
In the left column select a location for the new item i.e. "Other".
Click on the right column.
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Which printer driver do I use? I386 or amd64?
I installed additional packages and used L210's driver. It seems to work.
sudo apt-get install foomatic-filters
sudo apt-get install foomatic-db-engine
sudo apt-get install printer-driver-escpr
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Move program to other submenu on Raspbian
Open the start menu (I, too, just learned it's apparently called start menu..) and find your program. Right click allows you to select Properties.
In the window that opens, you find a line labeled ...
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How do I upgrade Raspbian Lite to Raspbian PIXEL?
Remove the LXDE packages:
# apt-get purge lxde
If it still gives you LXDE or it fails to start, change the autologin section in the lightdm configuration file at /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf. Remove ...
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Login Using Touchscreen
I have the virtual keyboard working at the login screen.
The solution is to install the GDM3 display manager
The display manager is responsible for managing the user authentication screen. The Raspian ...
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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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Boot into GUI by default without raspi-config, command-line only
If the reason why you don't want to use raspi-config is because you want to automate it and not have to go through the interactive menu, you can also use the script in a noninteractive way (see also ...
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RealVNC Viewer connection refused when headless
I added the following lines to my config.txt file in /boot.
# NOOBS Auto-generated Settings:
hdmi_force_hotplug=1
hdmi_group=2
hdmi_mode=82
#hdmi_safe=1
This forces the headless pi to 1080p. I've ...
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When I autorun python script the desktop does not load
Your script almost certainly doesn't terminate (does it have an endless loop?), and since you've included it in your startup process, than never completes either. Since the desktop depends on startup (...
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KeDei 3.5" v6.3 TFT Display with Raspberry Pi 3
There is an open source driver now for SPI bus to this device. Also supports touch.
https://github.com/kpishere/fbcp-ili9341.git
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Print screen button not taking screen shot
I believe the default Screenshot application is scrot, but it is a terminal application. Pixel runs scrot in the background which listens for the PrntScreen key.
Try opening a terminal and running ...
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Weird typing box in Raspbian
In LXDE, your desktop is managed by PCManFM, which is also LXDE's file manager. PCManFM has a function to find items in a folder by typing the first letters of it. For example if you type apple, it'll ...
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Which printer driver do I use? I386 or amd64?
I've got something that might work. Can't test it as I haven't got that kind of printer. It's based on this.
You'll likely need to install a bunch of things first
sudo apt install lsb-base build-...
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PIXEL as another user
I found it eventually ... its to do with the .config folder, just copied that over to the other account and its now (nearly) normal
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Run autossh on reboot through crontab
It is likely that it cannot start SSH as soon as you have booted due to network connection not being established immediately
@reboot sleep 60; ssh user@hostname
For example should work
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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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