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Questions tagged [lxde]

LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment) is a free and open-source desktop environment for Posix compatible platforms, that can run on all of the Pi's supported Linux distributions.

Its comparatively low resource requirements make it especially suitable for resource-constrained System on a chip computers such as the Pi.

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Raspberry Pi 4 autostart Chromium?

I've tried trawling through the RPI community threads for suggestions to start Chromium through a shell script. I originally tried to do this with Crontab however because the cron user doesn't have the necessary environment variables I wanted to try…
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Change wallpaper in LXDE through terminal

I'm connected through SSH. In other words, I have no mouse nor keyboard connected to the unit. How do I change the wallpaper from the terminal?
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$PATH not modified inside LXDE

I have a bin directory in home/pi. This is added to my $PATH when I login (by .profile), but when I go into LXDE and use LXTerminal my bin directory is no longer added to $PATH. (Sorry if this is a stupid question, this is my first day ever using…
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How do I display a message on the screen

Ok, I know it sounds like a dumb question but how do I show a black screen with custom text on it from LXDE desktop. I have looked on the internet for a while all I could find was this: export IP=ip addr show eth0 | grep -oP '(?<=inet…
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Raspbian LXDE Separate Wallpaper for each Workspace/desktop

As seen here it is possible to create multiple desktops/workspaces with LXDE desktop environment. However, I would like to also have a separate wallpaper for each desktop. I could not find anything in my searches about this and did not see any…
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Make an autologin with a non-root user LXDE and DietPi

As I can make an autologin in the LXDE graphical mode DietPi image, currently I only have autologin for root but I want to do it automatically for the user dietpi.
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LXDE autostart not starting program

I have two programs that I want to autostart with LXDE-pi. One starts but the other doesn't. Here is my LXDE-pi @lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi @pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi @xscreensaver…
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How can I launch a script using a global shortcut in LXDE running on RPi 3 B?

I want to be able to launch bash scripts and software, basically any command, using global shortcuts on LXDE running on RPi3 B. For example I want to be able to launch a script with the Alt + Shift + K key combination. I know how to do this in…
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Cannot auto-start Java application upon X session login

I am reading this answer, and I edited /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart, by appending the following line: @sudo java -jar /home/pi/Documents/devel/MyProject/MyProject.jar But nothing happens when I reboot the Pi, the program does not get…
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LXDE autostart procedure failed : file not found

I'm trying to start Libreoffice impress automatically once my raspberry pi has started up. I created: .config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart: sudo libreoffice -show /home/pi/test.odp When I execute the command in a terminal, all works fine. However the…
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Blank white Task bar after reboot, how do i get it back?

So basically i updated my raspberry pi using the jessie update but i wasn't able to finish it and turned off my computer and now the taskbar is there, but isnt responding to personal preference, (when i switch it to top or bottom), color or anything…
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Applications menu

Would deleting any of the .desktop files in the applications folder to remove them from the start menu mess up any thing else or would it just remove them from the menu. Or is there away of hiding category's on the menu Raspbian
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Application Launch Bar (ALB) icons do not work

I accidentally deleted the ALB icons by right clicking an icon and hit remove (went too quick to tell which item I actually hit). Bottom line: all my icons were gone. I looked up the process to add items to the ALB and put all the icons back on…
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