Hi Bernard On Monday, 15 June 2020 00:13:12 UTC+3, Bernard Fischer wrote: > > I have vnc working fine with a GUI on my BB AI. But if it plug in a > display and keyboard/mouse i get a text terminal and can't start up a > graphical desktop. startx is not found. > > What packages do I need to install for that? If it works over VNC why > doesn't it work directly? >
One of the easiest ways to get started with graphical desktops in Debian is to install a "task-XXX-desktop" metapackage for your favourite desktop environment XXX, which pulls in the whole kaboodle via dependencies. It will probably include some packages which you don't want, so feel free to prune later. E.g. for installing the light-weight LXDE environment you'd do this: $ sudo apt install task-lxde-desktop The reason you don't see a graphical environment when plugging in a monitor is you don't have a display manager installed ( https://wiki.debian.org/DisplayManager). The task you install will include a "friendly" display manager, e.g. in case of LXDE it'll be the lightdm. You might need to restart the board (or at least the display manager service) after you've plugged in a monitor post-boot. -- Kind regards, Tarmo -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/1abc43d9-631e-4360-ba5e-d39838bcab4bo%40googlegroups.com.
