Raspberrypi 5, wayland, and running as an app
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I don't know if this has ever been put down in one post but here we go.
To get retropie/retroarch/emulationstation working as an app and still boot into a wayland desktop, getting around the
Error intializing SDL! error.
Create a .desktop file. Have it execute:
env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY emulationstation
Make sure you have the desktop file execute in terminal and keep terminal window open after command execution. You can right click your desktop file and check boxes pertaining to this, under properties then desktop entry.
You may also need to go into raspi-config from terminal and switch audio from pipewire to pulseaudio.
Hope this helps someone else.
- On a side note, the retropie developers have not designed it to run as an app in the raspberrypiOS desktop environment. Your mileage may vary. *
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