Launching images

TedMaul

Running Pi4 on the latest weekly build. I've set up a system on Emulation Station specifically for a PIXEL desktop shortcut, which works fine but launches with the "Ports" image.

The shortcut is copied from the ports section into my new "desktop" one, and launching images have been generated for the "desktop" system. I've tried amending es_systems, and changing the PIXEL.sh shortcut so that it doesn't mention PORT, but then it just doesn't launch.

I realise it is only a cosmetic thing but would really like to fix it if anyone has any ideas!

Thanks in advance.

TedMaul

To try and rephrase this: is there a way of amending the current shell script to achieve what I'm after? It is sitting in the "desktop" roms folder and currently says this:

"/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh" 0 _PORT_ "lxde" ""

Failing that, does anyone have an alternative little script that could just launch it as a "rom" of sorts from the desktop folder?

Not asking for a whole coding lesson - I genuinely can't find where the lxde file is though (I'm assuming there is something executable somewhere) so can't even start to try and write something myself!

Any pointers gratefully received.

mitu

The launching command is set in the emulators.cfg for each system or port. For the lxde port, look for \\retropie\configs\ports\lxde.

TedMaul

Thanks @mitu; I've found it, and it contains:

lxde = "XINIT:startx"
default = "lxde"

I tried making a shell script just out of

"XINIT:startx"

But an error returned, command not found. If the script just says "startx" it launches, but without any launching image at all!

Any ideas what to do next?

Thanks in advance.

mitu

If you're launching with your own custom script, then you can add a simple command to display an image before launching xinit.

#!/bin/bash

# Replace 5 with the # of seconds the splashscreen should be active.
fbi -1 -t 5 -noverbose -a  /home/pi/roms/desktop/launching.png  </dev/tty &>/dev/null

# Launch X.org
xinit

TedMaul

Brilliant! Thanks for your help, works like a charm. I can now use this for my other custom systems too!

Thanks again.