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How to choose a different display #260

Closed joseairosa closed 10 years ago

joseairosa commented 10 years ago

Hello,

I'm running shoes in my raspberrypi which has a PiTFT attached onto it.

Because I'm running the terminal form a SSH connection I get (shoes-bin:4487): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:.

My display resides in /dev/fb1/. How can I run shoes in that selected display?

Thank you.

ccoupe commented 10 years ago

This more of an X11/Linux issue and not really one Shoes can solve since we just use Gtk2 and X11 like every graphical app on Linux. You need to get X11 running on your /dev/fb1 device. The pi forums are probably a better place to find hints.

joseairosa commented 10 years ago

@ccoupe Thank you for your help. I'll try and see if I can find help for that at the forums.

ccoupe commented 10 years ago

I have a pi but I use a hdmi monitor and it's own keyboard. Shoes works in that situation. I vaguely remember reading somewhere about the PiTFT and X11.

joseairosa commented 10 years ago

Thanks @ccoupe. Can you run it from command line or do you need to have run startx before?

ccoupe commented 10 years ago

It has to be run after startx. either from a LXDE terminal or from a LXDE menu entry. Shoes requires all the graphics libraries on the pi be available and running before it starts. X11 can be confusing and very flexible after some experience.