Booting to Pixel Desktop
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Good morning! I will start off by saying I may have got in a bit over my head here. I appologize in advance if my searching the forum failed to bring up relevant results to my situation; feel free to link me to anything relavant.
I am perhaps a bit overconfident in my abilities, however, I decided I would be able to figure out everything I needed to know to build a RaspberryPi system that runs RetroPie and the Pixel desktop. That said I got most of the way there. Currently, I am able to get it to play ROMs on EmulationStation. When the RPi boots into the terminal I have to type the command emulationstation and then it launches and we are good to go from there. Great. But I dont want it to boot into the command line terminal as I am the only one here who would bother to use that.So I need help configuring the whole deal so that it boots into Pixel and then we can launch EmulationStation from there.
I will try my best to include everything you asked for in the READ THIS FIRST but since I am on my smartphone it doesnt look like I am able to switch between posts to reference the details requested. I will add them to comments as quickly as I can (but honestly I will be fighting for access to the RPi with my house full of gamers indulging in some of the best SNES games from our childhood).
This is what I bought: CanaKit Raspberry Pi 3 Complete Starter Kit - 32 GB Edition https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B01CCF6V3A/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apap_46nfUlNttraMX
I used NOOBS to install Raspbian.
Followed the instructions here (because my ancient laptop refuses to connect to the internet long enough to DL the RetroPie image to flash to the SD card):
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/manual-installation
Starting at "How do I hide boot text" I followed instructions on this page through to the end of "How do I boot to the desktop or Kodi":
https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/FAQAnd now it will boot up to the desktop for a minute then launch the full screen terminal. Where have I gone wrong?
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@misspixiemoon I would say going through all that with noobs and manually doing everything. Just reflash the card with the official image from here.
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@rbaker I am aware that the whole thing would be easier that way. But I do not have access to a computer to download and flash the image on the SD card.
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@misspixiemoon How have you obtained roms? Obtain the image in the same way,
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@misspixiemoon Try this from the command line
cd RetroPie-Setup
chmod +x retropie_setup.sh
sudo ./retropie_setup.shThis should launch you into the setup or you can access it from emulationstation directly. You can then choose start emulationsation on boot.
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@rbaker they were provided to me by a friend on a jump drive. I would have to clear my jump drive, give it to them with detailed instructions, wait a few days to get it back and I will not see this person until Jan 8th at the earliest.
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@rbaker I have done this. I asked it to boot to the desktop which it does but then it kicks back out to terminal. I dont even know what commands to use there to return to Pixel Desktop
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@misspixiemoon Did you install the Pixel Desktop?
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All detailed on the docs: when enabling booting to the desktop ie failed to disable the splash screen module first.
Similar question was asked recently see:
Also you can't run ES and pixel at the same time so if you want to boot to pixel you'd need a script that logs out/kills x before it launches ES. This is also detailed on the docs page
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@herb_fargus thank you! Thank you! I will try that tomorrow morning!
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