@thewinterdojer yes it's also the emu station
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Thanks!

@r4mbleon I thought for some reason that was part of the autostart script but maybe it was something we discussed and never implemented. it was a while ago that we did it.

For now yes i think its something that can (should) be added to the manual installation page and/or the FAQ page.

also in case you want to have both the splash and the desktop environment you can use plymouth though its a tad (lot) more involved than switching out a png

Hello,

Have you found a solution to this problem? I have exactly the same issue.

Cheers,

JP.

@infocorn Answers 2 and 3 relate to the whole lx panel. In linux it is known as a panel not a task bar.

I installed Xfce. Scaled fonts, icons and cursor. Looks a bit odd, but it works. Emulationstation, kodi and the desktop are all accesible from the couch :)

@Xerox_Boxington I just installed the desktop under Ports...

First two half-assed attempts failed for me. It was like when i updated the pixel packages and/or installed the package, it would halt, and then give me some msg about connection being lost. So i upped the game and tried some different stuff, and i have no idea as to which of the steps actually solved the problem, but i can tell you what i did, at least :)

I did a clean reboot, this time not pairing my PS3 bluetooth controllers, so only my wireless keyb/mouse.

Used keyboard to 'exit emulationstation', so my Pi was in the terminal state.

Then i went to my PC, connected to the Pi through Putty and did the rest of the steps from there.

First i updated the retropie-setup script successfully, then i updated the Pixel package successfully. You will not have doubt when it works; it will continuously write Linux'ish stuff to the screen about packages being downloaded, updated, unpacked, installed and what not. This will take a while. Keep a look at this, to make sure it goes smooth and there are no error msgs.

After that, i could install the Pixel package (still doing this from the PC through Putty with my Pi in the terminal screen).

When it was all done, i tried to type in 'startx' which it tell you to do in the tutorial that you linked, but i just got errormessages that it was no good... anyways, i did a 'sudo reboot', went to the orts menu, selected 'desktop' and my Linux desktop booted right up. VERY sexy :)

So, all this might be awfully clumsy considering that i still have very little knowledge about Linux and the RetroPie stuff, but i am sure that you can reproduce the steps and end up with a desktop too :)

On a sidenote, the Pi and RetroPie keeps on amazing me! If it was't for your initial post, i had never imagined that this could be done, so thank you :) Now i have a cool Linux PC + a badass emulation hub all in one sexy little package!

@JoeRamone Your english is lot better than mine :D
Thanks for explanation, i cannot download from work, so i'll test everything later at home.

@redlv known issue:

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/6304/desktop-from-ports-fails-to-load-4-1

I still got this error in 2021 when I installed chromium in retropie using zerojay/RetroPie-Extra, so i thought i'd chime in with my fix that worked after looking at other's comments and suggestions.
I needed to set the /dev/tty* files/folders to be readable.
so in commandline;
cd /dev/
sudo chmod 666 tty*

hope this helps someone.