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The Graphical User Interface, or GUI, allows the user to interact with images rather than text.

The Graphical User Interface, or GUI, allows the user to interact with images rather than text.

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What is the name of the GUI that comes with the standard raspbian distribution?

What is the name of the GUI that comes by default with recent standard raspbian images (I have 2015-05-05-raspbian-wheezy.img)? Is it LXDE? Is there a reason why, in the GUI of the standard raspbian distribution, there is no About menu item,…
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Can't Shutdown or Reboot from GUI after making new user

As the title says I cannot shutdown or reboot from the GUI (when I say GUI I mean the one that loads after the startx command) after I am done. I can logout and reboot from command line but I cannot do it at once. I have added another user, made him…
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I want to run a tkinter script on startup without desktop

I've seen solutions for non-PI situations to start the x-11 server without loading the desktop. I want to boot straight into my Python script that uses tkinter for the gui. I've found out that you need the x-11 running to draw the graphics. Is…
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Raspberry Pi kiosk mode

I would like to have a Raspberry PI with some sort of kiosk-mode. Basically I want it to run a single application and I am trying to determine what is the smallest build that can do that. I haven't built the application yet so I am open to any…
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how to get rid of colored grid on 100% cpu?

Whenever there is 100% cpu usage, I see a colored grid on right top corner of the screen, which is on top, even if fullscreen video is being played. This started happening after i fired update and upgrade commands. Any idea how to get rid of it?
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Create new user and enable autologon Startx/LXDE

I am new to the forums and Linux in general. I am currently running Debian Wheezy with the GUI enable. For administrative purposes and other related tasks, I want to discontinue the use of the default user account "pi". Additionally, I would like…
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Buster GUI Icons and text are too small

I have a Pi4B-4 with a 13.3 diag HDMI screen. The fonts are too small even when preffed to "large". True of console text size too. Kindly, how do I resize them larger? Obvious noob question, (sight impaired).
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Is React / Web or Python the way to create UIs for Raspberry Pi kiosks?

I'm more of a full stack developer than anything so I've naturally just made chromium full screen on boot and hosted a web page for UI on raspberry kiosks. My question is that if this approach is recommended? Are there any react native or electron…
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How to execute a GUI program at boot time?

I am running stretch lite on Raspberry pi 1. I have a Gambas program which generates a GUI screen. This should happen without manual intervention like keyboard or mouse 1.I require the program to execute automatically at boot time. 2.The resultant…
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Twitter app for Raspberry Pi?

I saw that on TVs (maybe its Apple TV?) there is an app which displays some interesting or motivational tweets from twitter. I need to just hang a LCD display with Rpi on a wall and leave it running and it should do just this simple thing. Is there…
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How to use cusom fonts with the Raspberry Pi (using Qt Quick)?

I'm using EGLFS for graphics (via Qt Quick), and the only font there seems to exist is a very ugly serif font. I downloaded OpenSans, copied it into usr/local/share/fonts, but it doesn't work. Copying the same ttf files into the same folder on a…
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Kivy, KivyPie and PiTFT

I am developing application which must be very user-friendly. For fast prototyping, I made application via wxPython but it's appearance was not that good. So I decided to change my tool and Kivy seemed to be good choice. And there difficulties…
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Which OS for my pi task?

I want to use my PI for a ventilation system front end. I want it to boot up into my own simple GUI written in something like TKinter. We have occasional power cuts in the village so it must be able to re-boot and start up on its own. I have played…
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Prevent file corruption in GUI on power loss

I made a digital frame with my photos which run on Libre Office. I'm faced with the following issue: If someone accidentally pulls out the Raspberry Pi the LibreOffice can not use the file anymore. I tried to find solution here like block the SD…
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