Closed blame-lewis closed 3 years ago
OctoDash will install ratpoison as a Window manager, which is sufficient. There is no need to install the full-blown raspbian desktop environment, as this will just slow down the boot. I've been running OctoDash since the start now without any desktop environment at all.
Did you run into any issues while installing?
Hi Timon, I did run into issues, yes. What I did was:
What happened was X refused to boot, stating there was no screen attached. Installing the Raspbian desktop environment solved this. It still booted into ratpoison and didn't launch the full desktop environment, so I'm guessing there's a missing dependency in there somewhere. Thanks Lewis
On Sat, Oct 2, 2021 at 1:09 AM Timon G. @.***> wrote:
OctoDash will install ratpoison as a Window manager, which is sufficient. There is no need to install the full-blown raspbian desktop environment, as this will just slow down the boot. I've been running OctoDash since the start now without any desktop environment at all.
Did you run into any issues while installing?
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Ah ok, I think the issue here is that you installed the drivers after the OctoDash installation, which probably messed something up. The driver installation scripts usually do some major changes to the files that OctoDash is also changing to automatically start up. I'm closing this here for now, since the full Desktop environment isn't really the ideal solution (way overkill for a single window). If you'd like to tinker with this feel free to execute your steps on a fresh SD Card and swap step 2 & 3 and report back.
Thanks for the info though!
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Yes. When setting up OctoDash, the frontend won't function unless a desktop environment is present, and a stock OctoPi install does not have one. The user may or may not realise that installing one is necessary or know how to.
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apt-get -y dist-upgrade && apt-get install raspberrypi-ui-mods
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