I solved the issue. Apparently the order of the XML tags inside "system" is relevant. Looks like I was simply creating a new text behind the background... After moving it to below the background image tag, it finally showed up.
Here's the final code (after the background image tag)

<text name="by" extra="true"> <pos>0.85 0.969</pos> <color>ffffff80</color> <fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath> <fontSize>0.02</fontSize> <text>hello world</text> </text>

Text tag reference on ES md documentation

Thanks for your help, I will give it a try.

Thanks again

@momo said in ES main menu retropie:

How can I remove this ES menu. and that I do not have to put the kids mode. ty

If you don't want to use the Kid UI mode, you can remove the start key mapping for your controller(s) in the es_input.cfg file from /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation. There's no other configuration that will disable the menu.

@Libation

thanks you :)

This is a configurable option. You'll have to modify Emulationstation's source and re-compile to change the size of the font, it's automatically computed from the screen's height - see here.

@Sanctus Alas, I don't know Batocera or its directory tree at all. Maybe you should ask this at the Batocera forums with reference to this thread. I guess you are the Sanctus over there, too?

If I understand your approach correctly, this makes Kodi/Steam Link appear as their own system in Emulation Station but you still need to go inside and select a single Kodi/Steam Link launch script?

@h2805270 said in White Noise on the home menu:

"program ES to add a new option to the menu", I know how to edit the es_systems.cfg to add kodi to the main menu

No, that's not it. When I'm thinking of the 'Emulationstation menu', I'm thinking of the menu shown when you press Start on your controller and that's basically programming. However that not be what you're after - maybe you just need a simple script to start a command an an entry in Emulationstation that you can just press to start that command.

No, Emulationstation doesn't have the ability to run shaders, that's something specific to RetroArch.

@trekdrop It's not possible at the moment. The shaders are only available in RetroArch, so they're applied when a game starts.

@avazquez4 Please open a new topic with your problem and put in the information requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first. Note that 3rd party images are not supported here in the forum.

@gbh You sound like me. I want to know why it happened too. It's such an odd case. I've never seen anything like it in 2 years using RetroPie, so we may never know.
If it happens again then we can be pretty sure it is something in your set-up or something you are doing.

Thank you @mitu for the quick and, arguably, more importantly, accurate information. Too many times I have been given a solution that just leads me down a rabbit hole that never ends but this was a one-stop solution.!

@zigurana See my edit above.

@mitu said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

@che_don_john said in Power On/Off Option in Main Menu:

sudo restart -r now

There's no such command. You maybe want to run sudo reboot ?

Thanks, I'll try that.

@R2dTOO Are you using .bin/.cue files? Might have something to do with the .bin files being hidden. Stick an eboot .pbp file in there and see if it shows up. I use .pbp files and it displays the number of games no problem. In fact I wish I could turn this off!

Thank you, it completely make sense and it explains my problem. Is this possible to know which other files are changed by the script? I did not configure specific controls for any emulator, i am only using all/retro arch.cfg which works actually : control mapping is done from that file only as far as I know for my config and that's why I assumed restoring this file + input.cfg would be enough.

Sorry if I am not clear but I don't know how to explain further.

@jakob I think not.