Booting to the default Raspbian desktop.

[zoner]

I would like my Raspbian OS to boot to the desktop by default. And RetroPie could be launched from a desktop shortcut or from the menu.

In the instructions for installing RetroPie on Raspbian (https://retropie.org.uk/docs/Manual-Installation) there is a warning:
"If you're booting to the desktop you'll want to disable the retropie splashscreen from the setup script first."

Could you please explain where exactly I need to edit the setup script to disable the splashscreen?
Forgive my ignorance, I'm just starting to explore the world of linux.

[mitu]

I would like my Raspbian OS to boot to the desktop by default. And RetroPie could be launched from a desktop shortcut or from the menu.

That's not a supported configuration - as noted in the same manual installation page.

If you wish to boot to desktop by default, then install a graphical login manager like lightdm (this is what the full desktop RaspiOS uses) and then configure it to start automatically in the 'graphical' runlevel with

sudo systemctl set-default graphical.target

Could you please explain where exactly I need to edit the setup script to disable the splashscreen?

You can do so in the RetroPie-Setup, under configuration -> splashscreen.

[zoner]

@mitu said in Booting to the default Raspbian desktop.:

That's not a supported configuration - as noted in the same manual installation page.

I may have misspoken. I will try to explain it more fully. Now I have Raspbian installed with a standard desktop from which I can run programs (browser, media player, file manager, etc.).
Do I understand you correctly that after installing RetroPie on Raspbian my desktop environment will remain the same? And after rebooting the OS, I will be able to launch programs as before from the desktop or start menu.

I'm asking in such detail because I had a bad experience with KODI, after installing it, the desktop disappeared and the system booted straight to the media player.

[mitu]

@zoner said in Booting to the default Raspbian desktop.:

I may have misspoken.

I don't think so.

Do I understand you correctly that after installing RetroPie on Raspbian my desktop environment will remain the same?

Yes. You can configure how the system boots and what's started in the autostart configuration - by default no configuration is performed, so the current boot configuration is not modified.