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Image Raspbian full if you want a desktop, else lite is sufficient for CLI. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get remove ...Kedei 2 touch screen
Something I bought in 2015, 2 Kedei 2 lcd 3.5 inch touch screens. Worked, albeit slow. With a Wheezy image, ...USB quirks
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=245931 1. Finding the VID and PID of your USB SSD Disconnect the USB SSD. In a terminal window, run the command ...Mouse double click speed
Trouble like me with Mouse double click speed? Google "lxde double click speed", there is a hidden file named ".gtkrc-2.0" in ...RPI_HAL
rpi_hal from https://github.com/rudiratlos/rpi-hal is an incredible rich and uptodate unit for Freepascal to use the I/O of the Raspberry. From Freepascal ...Arduino on Raspberry
Install Arduino on Buster Arduino 1.8.12 (or higher) from arduino.cc - Software - Arduino ARM 32 bits Download to e.g. ...Autostart program like minicom at console at boot
Install minicom setup your system to auto ;login into a commandline session [use sudo raspi-config] then at the end of .bashrc put in then ...XRDP revisited
Shutdown menu not working: You can get the Buttons working, just change the line ‘Logout=lxde-pi-shutdown-helper’ to ‘Logout=sudo lxde-pi-shutdown-helper’ in ‘/home/pi/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/config’.Install Freepascal/Lazarus again
For Buster see here! Installed using instructions from several posts by Thaddy as follows: 1. Add stretch-backports to sources.list Create: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list Add: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports ...Shutdown Raspbian with a button
he simplest way to set up a "pushbutton to shut down" is to add "dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown" to /boot/config.txt and rig a ...
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http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Raspberry-Pi-Based-ScreensaverSlideshow-for-E/ https://www.lifewire.com/feh-command-line-image-viewer-4054068A page and news blog about Raspberry Pi, Freepascal and Lazarosn on the Pi, Ulitbo on the Pi, Arduino and ESP8266. More of a personal logbook for my own usage, it may be of use for others.