Installing Pixel

[Williquah]

@herb_fargus
Thanks a lot for providing those instructions. Personally, I did not need to grab gvfs to get my wastebasket and usb automounting to work, using dpkg I see that gvfs is installed, assuming through the Pixel installation.

I'm on RPi3, RetroPie 4.2, so I'm thinking it's the most recent update that did it.
Thanks again for your instructions, following the rest worked perfectly for me.

[herb_fargus]

@Williquah yep I've added it as a dependency so it's installed automatically with the installer now

[Vodkanakas]

Hi i followed the procedure to install pixel and it wont boot via ports or command line. just boots back into ports menu like it couldnt load the desktop. any ideas?

[Williquah]

@herb_fargus Superb, thanks a lot for that!

[Williquah]

@Vodkanakas I could be going overkill, but if it's not too much trouble for you, I'd backup your roms and configs and what not manually, format the sd, fresh install latest version of RetroPie, than follow the procedure again for Pixel, at least that's what I'd try.. again, might be a little dramatic though I'm not sure.

[herb_fargus]

@Vodkanakas you need to update your setup script before you try and install it.

[Vodkanakas]

that worked thanks.

[felleg]

@herb_fargus Hello, sorry for the bump!

I tried installing the Pixel desktop. It worked the first time right away after installing it (when doing sudo startx from the terminal), but after a reboot, the desktop stopped working. I tried launching it both from the Pi directly and from ssh, and both with and without an HDMI monitor connected. Same result (though through ssh it says "no screen found", which is understandable). I'm pretty sure I changed nothing in my config files (then again, I could be wrong). I tried launching it from the ports by launching "Desktop" in ES, and no dice.

Here's the full log I get from startx (.local/share/org/Xorg.log.0):
https://pastebin.com/scCXnstK

It seems the error is linked to fbdev , a module that failed to load. I have installed a PiTFT in my retropie setup a week before attempting to install the Pixel desktop and I know it uses fbcp (framebuffer copy), but I have no idea if it has something to do with fbdev. Sorry if that's not enough info, but let me know if I can provide any config.

I'm running RetroPie 4.2 from a RPi3, I updated the retropie setup script and tried installing the pixel desktop as described in the wiki (even installed the dependencies that apt-get told me to install).

EDIT (9 months later): Just wanted to say I managed to solve the problem by installing something, but I fail to remember what it was. Sorry. Will update if I come across the problem and solve it once more.

[felleg]

@herb_fargus bump

[polygaryd]

@herb_fargus said in Installing Pixel:

@rsimmy

Alright gave it a test:

My steps:

Update Setup Script

Configure/tools>Raspbian Tools>Update Raspbian Packages (took a while)

Install pixel desktop environment

Restart emulationstation and run desktop from ports:

result: no wastebasket

Find what the filemanager is (pacmanfm) go to google: find this:

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/8790/where-is-the-trash-directory-for-pcmanfm-and-xfe

sudo apt-get install gvfs

sudo reboot

wastebasket is there, usb drives automount. Magic!

Ok so I'm on retro pie 4.3.3 on a pi 3model b and pixel will not run. I installed the stand alone browsers first as well as the x windowing system to make them start up. Then installed pixel and it wouldnt open. It Didnt even go back to the ports screen.
So i tried doing these steps and every single time it hoses my retropie. I cant even get to installing pixel, as soon as i update raspian files nothing works, my bluetooth devices stop and i cant even get into the bluetooth section it goes to command line and says stuff about not being able to find the packages.. If i reboot then none of the usb ports work so basically its useless and i have to reimage the sd card. Then i did your steps again without firefox and chrome or xwindow system installed and get the same result. What is the issue? How did you get this work and when i do your exact steps and i get a non functional Raspberry-Pi?

[herb_fargus]

@polygaryd just use the setup script.

[polygaryd]

@herb_fargus said in Installing Pixel:

@polygaryd just use the setup script.

So just update the setup script then install pixel Is that what you mean?

[polygaryd]

@polygaryd said in Installing Pixel:

@herb_fargus said in Installing Pixel:

@polygaryd just use the setup script.

So just update the setup script then install pixel Is that what you mean?

Figured it out, to answer my own question, yes just update the retropie setup script and lxde/pixel installs and works fine.

I have another question though, i already had kodi installed through the ports section of retropie and it showed up in lxde/pixel on the applications menu under sound and video. Is that just a link to kodi that's installed in retropie ports section and lxde/pixel auto recognized and added kodi as an app or does lxde/pixel install kodi also so if have two copies of Kodi on the sd card?

[mitu]

@polygaryd You only have a copy of Kodi in your system, the shortcut is probably installed by the Kodi package.