Accidentally uninstalled default theme on Pi Zero

backstander

@BennySpaceCore
I think my 2nd post is what you want. Just need to change your theme. Which theme are you wanting to use? Carbon theme is the default and Pixel theme is my personal favorite.

BennySpaceCore

@backstander is this possibly a list of themes and the downloads I could see? Also to do it I put in the USB drive with the theme on it and run the conmand right?

backstander

@BennySpaceCore
Then 2nd post is just using EmulationStation (which is the GUI that you use to pick the system and list of games to play) and changing the theme to a different one that you've already installed. You can also go into RetroPie menu and pick ES Themes and install more (like Pixel for example) then using that GUI to change the current theme to that one.

BennySpaceCore

@backstander well the problem is I can't install anything straight from the pi, the Zero does not have wifi, so if I use the method you provided will it still work?

backstander

@BennySpaceCore
Oh yeah, sorry I didn't understand your question. You could move over the zip file using a USB flash drive. That link I posted is for an older version of Pixel and you can do exactly what I posted!

You can download the newest version of Pixel from this Github address:
https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-pixel

Just hit the "Clone or download" green button on top right and then click "Download ZIP." Then when you get it to your Pi Zero, type this:
sudo unzip -o es-theme-pixel-master.zip -d /etc/emulationstation/themes/
sudo mv /etc/emulationstation/themes/es-theme-pixel-master /etc/emulationstation/themes/pixel
(that 2nd line is just to make it show up as "pixel" and not "es-theme-pixel-master" lol)

BennySpaceCore

@backstander thank you very much! I will test this soon, let's just hope I don't screw up and brick my Pi, lol.

backstander

@BennySpaceCore
okay so the https://github.com/RetroPie/es-theme-pixel link I gave you is for some reason an older Pixel version 1.7?

@Rookervik do you have the official Github link for Pixel?

BennySpaceCore

@backstander so should I wait until we get a response from the person you pinged?

backstander

@BennySpaceCore
If you want you could just use the v1.92 from above right now and when we find the correct newest version, then we can just update/replace it with the newest one.

BennySpaceCore

@backstander I'll wait sometime to see if the person responds back.

Rookervik

@backstander Yes, the official Pixel repo is now my own github version. I finally learned how to use that junk so I could save Herb some work. The link is: https://github.com/ehettervik/es-theme-pixel

BennySpaceCore

@Rookervik thank you very much! I shall use this to see if it works.

BennySpaceCore

@backstander I'm trying to do this now, where do I type in all the commands?

BennySpaceCore

@Rookervik @Rookervik so when I try to unzip the file, it says it can't find it, I just put it on the USB drive, not sure if I was suppose to put in the retro pie folder but I have Roms in there, here's the screen I get. Also pretty sure that the file names are the same. alt text

Rookervik

@BennySpaceCore You should give this a read, first. https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/themes

BennySpaceCore

@Rookervik the problem is it's not that easy for me, I have a raspberry pi zero and no wifi dongle, so I'm trying to figure out how I can download that theme on a USB drive and transfer it to the retropie SD card and install it. Also right now my theme is the blank theme seen in this tutorial https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Creating-Your-Own-EmulationStation-Theme

Rookervik

Ugh, it's going to be a little tough for you, then. You'll have to extract and copy the theme folder to the USB and then get the USB mounted. I have no experience in that. It's linux though, and there are thousands of tutorials out there on mounting a USB drive.

Once you can mount the USB and browse the contents, you will need to copy the theme folder to /home/pi/.emulation/themes

So I guess, hypothetically, if your USB is mounted at /mnt/usb1 you'd type something like this into the console:

mkdir /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes

Don't worry if the folder is already there. Then something like:

cp /mnt/usb1/es-theme-pixel -R /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes/

Modify this to how ever your system is set up. Or use this information to enhance your google search.

backstander

I gave @BennySpaceCore the directions to download the ZIP file of your github pixel files. So after you download the ZIP file, just extract it to the USB flash drive. Now there should be a directory on the USB flash drive named "es-theme-pixel-master" (or something like that), just rename that directory to "pixel" then eject it from your PC and plug it into your Pi Zero.

Now to get to the command line from EmulationStation with a USB keyboard plugged into your Pi Zero, you press F4 on the keyboard. Then you can do like what @Rookervik said:
mkdir /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes (if needed)
cp -R /mnt/usb1/pixel /home/pi/.emulationstation/themes/

Hopefully that helps. If you run into a snag, just post here and we'll try to get you back on track.

BennySpaceCore

@backstander alright, so right now im trying to download and install raspbian to mount the usb, so this might take a while, ill update you when its ready to install on the usb

BennySpaceCore

@backstander For some reason it wont let me write raspbian on the USB drive, so later I might just take out the SD card of my Pi, and trying not to break it in the process, would I be able just to install a theme to the SD card it self? The reason I haven't tried doing this in the first place is that my casing it very tight and it might be difficult taking out the SD card without breaking anything since everything is so close.