How to fully remove "launchimages"?

Agrajag

@mitu Thanks. I assumed launchimages was it's own thing. and that the images runcommand was referencing were related to runcommand's very simplistic box art stuff.

Agrajag

@mitu

Guess what? "Launch menu art" is DISABLED and it's still showing.

mitu

@agrajag Can't say I can reproduce the issue - mine is disabled and it's not showing.
EDIT: anything else installed that modified the runcommand behavior ?

Agrajag

@mitu Not that I'm aware of. I haven't really installed a whole lot.

Skyscraper and the Steve Selph scraper. A few different cores (Daphne, Coleco, jzintv, Dreamcast and several MAME's). None of that should be touching the runcommand setup.

I also notice the log for ES is complaining a bunch about missing files from the theme as it created images for every system even though I'm not using most of them (I stupidly selected Create All when I first installed launchimages):

Mar 12 00:05:59 lvl1: Warning from theme "/etc/emulationstation/themes/showcase/amstradcpc/theme.xml"
(from included file "/etc/emulationstation/themes/showcase/amstradcpc/../theme.xml")
could not find file ""
Mar 12 00:05:59 lvl1: System "amstradcpc" has no games! Ignoring it.

Agrajag

@mitu

I thought I was so smart. I just decided, "Hey, let's re-install runcommand as it's an option under Main Packages. I thought, "This will fix it". It didn't.

Now I'm thinking either:

A. I should uninstall runcommand and then re-install it, or

B. That the images existing at all somewhere is what's causing this behavior and they need to be deleted, but I'm not at all sure where those things are.

Agrajag

@mitu

Okay. It's fixed. I went in and found that I had "launching.png" files, but oddly not in all the platforms. Only in the ones I have roms for so I have no idea what my theme is complaining about.

I deleted those png's and now everything is happy. Seems to be a bug I tripped over where runcommand is currently not paying attention to that setting. I'd love to know if you create a launching.png and put it in a platform folder if it ignores that setting for you as well, but that's not a big deal.

mitu

@agrajag said in How to fully remove "launchimages"?:

Skyscraper and the Steve Selph scraper. A few different cores (Daphne, Coleco, jzintv, Dreamcast and several MAME's). None of that should be touching the runcommand setup.

No, that doesn't affect runcommand.

I also notice the log for ES is complaining a bunch about missing files from the theme as it created images for every system even though I'm not using most of them ..

That's because of the theme, it's not because of launching images.

A. I should uninstall runcommand and then re-install it, or

Runcommand displays the image when configured to do, or if you've added an onstart script that shows images. Re-installing it will not help, since the settings are kept.

The settings for runcommand are kept in \\retropie\configs\all\runcommand.cfg. Can you post its contents ? If you wish to reset runcommand, you should rename the configuration file.

Agrajag

@mitu For some reason my \\retropie is not working of late. Sometimes it will pop up a login and that will let me get back into it. No idea why. (I did do a mac filter to force it to a specific IP (.41) and it has yet to release (from days back) the original IP so that might be the cause.

I've been using Filezilla to access it.

I do find a runcommand.cfg under opt/retropie/configs/all which is likely the same:

use_art = "0"
disable_joystick = "0"
governor = ""
disable_menu = "0"
image_delay = "0"

Hmm... use_art="0" is pretty straight-forward. If I put a launch.png file back in any platform folder it appears.

mitu

I've looked at that part and I think it's ok.
Runcommand will use the launching image for platform/port if found, the 'Launch Menu Art' option is used to instruct Runcommand to display scraped images (artwork in EmulationStation) for the game launched.

This is explained in https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Runcommand/#adding-custom-launching-images.

Agrajag

@mitu So once a launch image is created there's no way to disable it short of deleting the files?

mitu

@agrajag Yes. Adding an image is how you 'configure' runcommand to show it.

Agrajag

@mitu Okay... Now if only it actually worked then I'd be keeping it. I LOVED the images created from the Tronky theme, but it it can't easily and intuitively load the actual menu underneath it then it can't hang around for now.