@pinomnomnom said in script driven message to alert user while in emulationstation:

but where can I read more about what's needed to use SHOW_MSG?

Maybe the source or the PR that added the functionality, I can't find any other reference in the Libretro docs about it.

@mitu Will do - but will be later - am not currently home.

However - before I left - I did copy in a quick test - atari 2600 roms and bios.

Seems to run fine.

Will grab the logs later

@windg said in sudo: /usr/bin/sudo must be owned by uid 0:

Now that mitu mentions it, it seems that I put the theme here : /etc/emulationstation/themes and maybe that's why it failed from FTP .

Yes, that's a root folder and so you need root permissions to work there.

Custom themes or those you want to edit should be placed in ~/.emulationstation/themes or /opt/retropie/configs/all/emulationstation/themes (they're the same, via symlink) where they can be worked on by the regular user.

@thirdeyedynamo said in How to Change directories in Retropie Rasbian:

pi@retropie:~$ cd/RetroPie/roms

You are missing a space and you are already in the directory :
/home/pi
So we go from there, try :
pi@retropie:~$ cd RetroPie/roms

The long version would be :
pi@retropie:~$ cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms

You can also do :
pi@retropie:~$ cd ~/RetroPie/roms
(~/ is the home path /home/pi if the user is pi)

You can use the tab key you know to fill it up, something like this :
cd Ret<tab>/ro<tab>

There are a lot of linux bash tutorials on the internet.
My advice is to read these.

Try using the Gnome on Xorg session to log in, instead of the default (Gnome on Wayland). The issue occurs because of the Wayland session and SDL's fullscreen mode, which doesn't cover the entire screen.

In case anyone's keeping track, Reddit user McDutchie says:

Ctrl+C interrupts all the processes in the current process group. When your [jslisten] is invoked from .bashrc, I think you'll find it shares a process group ID with bash itself. You can check this with:

ps -o pid -o pgid -o comm

The -m option, a.k.a. -o monitor, causes bash to give background processes (including those invoked from a subshell, as you're doing) their own process group, so that Ctrl+C does not interrupt them. This option is on by default for interactive shells, but profile scripts are run before bash turns it on. But you can turn it on yourself within the subshell that you're invoking the background process from:

[[ "$(tty)" == "/dev/tty1" ]] && (set -m; /opt/retropie/configs/all/jslisten/jslisten /dev/input/js0 &)

This does indeed seem to be my solution. Ctrl-c (for example, to cancel a half-typed command when I notice a typo at the beginning) no longer kills the jslisten process, allowing my "logout hotkey combo" to remain functional.

@RobbyThomas2525 Ok then, with a stock 4.8 image from retropie.org.uk/download EmulationStation works - did you do any additional configuration on your system, like installing an additional display driver or modifying the config.txt boot configuration file ?

@buzz Thanks.

I already fix it:

https://mintguide.org/other/355-how-to-make-sudo-without-a-password-on-linux-mint.html/amp

I just don't know way works great and after some update or something like that that starts to ask password...

Works nice!

@yfzdude said in Trouble creating desktop launcher file [SOLVED]:

I'm still curious if any GNU/Linux wizards know why the original method was not working. Either way it is working now.

Because runcommand needs a terminal to show the launch menu, launching ES directly would break this. On Debian and friends, you can use x-terminal-emulator as the terminal starting command, which would be expanded to one of the installed terminal emulators.

Is this solved already?

If not: I would run ssh -v pi@<address>, it should give you a hint.
If you are still puzzled: Mount the SD card of the clone in your Mac, look for a file /etc/hostname. Edit the file and change the hostname to something different e.g rpi-clone. Boot your Rpi with this SD card and try SSH'ing again.

HTH

If by "Arcade Mode" you mean EmulationStation then:
Pressing F4 will exit EmulationStation and drop you to the Terminal. Or you could use the ES main menu by pressing "Start" and selecting "Quit" and then "Quit EmulationStation".

If you bought a custom premade image then I have no idea what software you're using and only the original seller can help you,

On a PC (Ubuntu & forks, Debian, etc.), EmulationStation should be started from a desktop environment, not from a terminal.

@mitu Thanks a lot for your help.

@BuZz

I tried to remove it but it causes retroarch to crash. Here's the log: https://pastebin.com/dFx4K74J

Let me know if you need me to do more testing !

Thanks for your time.

@dankcushions Thanks for the response! Unfortunate but understandable.

What's the content of the file you deleted (es_input.cfg) ?

Aha!

So it works, thank you very much for your guidance, Rascas!

So, for future Googlers who may be having this same issue (Missing the PVR's in Kodi on Retropie), here's the full solution:

Install Retropie, then install Kodi via the "Optional Packages" in the configuration menu.

When you're in Retropie, press F4 on your keyboard to open a Terminal window.

Enter the following commands one at a time (to install the "IPTV Simple PVR"):

apt-cache search kodi-pvr

sudo apt-get install kodi-pvr-iptvsimple

Once complete, type "exit" (without the quotation marks) to get back into Retropie.

Scroll to Ports then choose Kodi.

In Kodi, DO NOT go to PVR's. If you do you will see it is blank and will get angry and think what you did in fact did not work.

Instead, go to "Add-Ons" then "My Add-Ons" and view "All" and you will see the IPTV simple client. Go to it and then Enable it as most likely it will be Disabled to begin with.

Voila!

If you know how to use IPTV then go ahead and set it up.

Take Care!

@dbrown1986 said in Running Rpi on a Ubuntu terminal...:

As it stands, I've attempted this but the terminal reports ES cannot start without a graphics driver (even when gnome and Nvidia drivers had been installed but disabled in favor of the terminal).

Yes, the drivers you installed work with X.org.

Ideally, what I'd like to do is to install only a terminal, apt-get only what I need and autoboot into ES on boot.

The RetroPie installation script should already do that - auto-login via the current DM and starting Emulationstation into an X.org session.

Is this feasible?

Not without X.org at the moment.