Where's a good beginners guide then?

[SimpleSi]

There's not one here and I can't see one on the official forums either - its all too geeky!

 

Where's the "simple" stuff so I can play with Scratch for instance?

 

Si

[SimpleSi]

aah - it seems

 

startx

 

is the magic command - someone needs to put that on a piece of paper inside the box

 

Si

[SYNACK]

aah - it seems

 

startx

 

is the magic command - someone needs to put that on a piece of paper inside the box

 

Si

 

It's linux, just think Windows 3.1, remember "win" to bring up a program manager shell startx is the linux alternative.

[SimpleSi]

It's linux, just think Windows 3.1, remember "win" to bring up a program manager shell startx is the linux alternative.

 

you see - all its takes is an expert with good communication skills and the light switches on

 

JFYI it IS on a piece of paper inside the box - but who reads them eh!

 

I'm thinking - how hard will it be for me to hack the beginners distro and get it to autostart - it could be called the Simple Distro

[SYNACK]

I think you just need to find the init.d file or something like that and put it at the end, if I recall it is kind of like the autoexec.bat for that runstate but it depends on the distro that is on there. I think there is a newer way which someone will be sure to point out but it should still work. The file micht be in /etc and protected so you'll have to use sudo to launch whatever shell or even x text editor in order to edit and save it.

[SYNACK]

Looks like this is a common ask and my method was out of date, just need to push up the default runstate

Raspberry Pi • View topic - login / startx automatically

 

there are some more hints like memory optimisation and overclocking here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/12rXGOrx4xGl38cT6sVc4b9M7wGVz6d6tiKNHUlhbClM/edit?pli=1