Quit Pixel back to ES?

[smartroad]

I am setting up a machine for my Nephew for Xmas. My sister wants it to be a "proper" computer first and a games machine second so I have it configured to boot direct to Pixel. I was wondering if anyone knows how to quit Pixel and get back to ES?

I found a comment via google but it unfortunately wasn't helpful. Some others said just to run emulationstation command from the terminal, which didn't work, ES can't create the window.

The machine is using a Pi3, using the latest image of RetroPie and updated. I installed Pixel desktop and then followed by picking it to boot to desktop. When I select "Shutdown" from the menu all I get is Shutdown, Reboot and Logout. I am sure when I tried this ages ago there was also an option to return to terminal.

Any help would be appreciated!

[Thorr69]

@smartroad If you are going to Pixel first, then you aren't trying to 'get back' to ES because ES has never been started. What you need to do is quit the desktop (exit to terminal) and then start ES. You only get the window error if you try to start ES while PIXEL is still running.

[mitu]

@smartroad said in Quit Pixel back to ES?:

I am sure when I tried this ages ago there was also an option to return to terminal.

There is, if the desktop is started from ES or command line.

You can boot to desktop by modifying the autostart.sh in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ and load Pixel before EmulationStation:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _PORT_ lxde
emulationstation #auto

Of course, configure auto-login to console instead of auto-login to desktop for this to work.

[smartroad]

@mitu said in Quit Pixel back to ES?:

@smartroad said in Quit Pixel back to ES?:

I am sure when I tried this ages ago there was also an option to return to terminal.

There is, if the desktop is started from ES or command line.

You can boot to desktop by modifying the autostart.sh in /opt/retropie/configs/all/ and load Pixel before EmulationStation:

/opt/retropie/supplementary/runcommand/runcommand.sh 0 _PORT_ lxde
emulationstation #auto

Of course, configure auto-login to console instead of auto-login to desktop for this to work.

That's what I was thinking of, I must have had it launch from ES. Thanks for the replies, and sorry for the delay replying, work and life got in the way :(

I've set the system up now so the first option on ES is the "Ports" so the desktop can be loaded quickly from there :D