Retropie menu component not opening
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Hi there,
I'm trying to install retropie on a Desktop computer running a minimal install of Debian 10 with retropie-setup folowing the tutorial. I managed to make emulationstation start and run but when I try to access some components of the retropie menu like "file manager" or "retropie setup" it will just bring me back to the desktop environement with mouse cursor as a cross.
I checked the retropie-menu folder and the "files.rp" are there but empty (0 bytes) I don't think this is normal and i don't get where it can come from.
I already tried re-installing retropie from retropie setup and reinstall all core package but it didn't change anything.
Retroarch is working from the retropie menu tho.My guess is that i would need to install the core component from sources and not from binaries. Can I even do this ?
Thank for your attention.
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@Nozban said in Retropie menu component not opening:
I checked the retropie-menu folder and the "files.rp" are there but empty (0 bytes) I don't think this is normal and i don't get where it can come from.
It's normal to be 0 bytes, they're just placeholders for the menu items.
I already tried re-installing retropie from retropie setup and reinstall all core package but it didn't change anything.
Retroarch is working from the retropie menu tho.You need to run EmulationStation from a terminal emulator session (
xterm
,urxvt
,gnome-terminal
, etc), the shortcut that RetroPie installs already does that. If you are starting EmulationStation just by executingemulationstation
itself, then some components will not work, since they need a text terminal to display. -
Ok thanks a lot, I see what was wrong.
In fact I was lauching emulationstation from the .xinitrc file because I wanted to avoid using openbox. But is seem not to be possible. To make it as clean as possible I edited my files like so:
/home/pi/.initrcexec openbox-session
This will start an openbox session in X and trigger the autostart file that i edited like so:
/home/pi/.config/openbox/autostartxterm -fg white -bg black emulationstation -fullscreen
This will lauch emulationstation in a black xterm terminal in fullscreen which is used to display the file manager or retropie setup.
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