"emulationstation" is not working

[MrMasterGenius]

Hello Retropie Supporter

I installed everythink to start Retropie but if i ^type in "emulationstation" it says: "X is running. Please shut down X in order to mitigrade problems with losing Keyboard input. For example, logout from LXDE.

please help me solve this problem!
thanks

[AlexMurphy]

@MrMasterGenius You need to log out of the desktop. RetroPie will not run if X ( desktop) is running. You cannot launch RetroPie from the Terminal within the desktop. Use the menu > shutdown > exit to command line.

[MrMasterGenius]

I did, but it was the same problem.
i was in the desctop an made ctrl+alt+f4, then logged in an typed again"emulationstation" it sayd the same.

[AlexMurphy]

@MrMasterGenius Log Out of the desktop. Go into the menu and click Log Outor alternatively enter pkill x into the terminal. This will kill the x process, ie end the desktop session. Ctrl+Alt+F4 is not ending the desktop session. It just opens a console session in front ot it.

[MrMasterGenius]

but then it forces me to log back in...

[AlexMurphy]

@MrMasterGenius Set your system to boot automatically to Emulation Station or to CLI with no login.

[MrMasterGenius]

how?

[AlexMurphy]

@MrMasterGenius using this. https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/raspi-config.md Choose console / cli auto login.

[MrMasterGenius]

Finally got it... thanks Alex :)
it actually was really easy

[AlexMurphy]

@MrMasterGenius It's always easy once you know how!