How to set my Raspberry Pi to boot into the GUI?
As from my previous question, I asked what the power off button in the corner does. Then somebody said if you boot into the GUI automatically, it will give you some options.
How do I boot into the GUI at startup?
Read this article which explains how to auto login and auto start desktop http://www.opentechguides.com/how-to/article/raspberry-pi/5/raspberry-pi-auto-start.html
Assuming that you are using Raspbian, it is actually rather simple to do what you ask. Simply open the terminal, and type in the following:
sudo raspi-configThe following window should show up
Navigate to
boot_behaviourand click enter. This should make it so that the GUI interface starts automatically.Just a detail: My feeb attempts to switch _back_, from boot-to-gui to boot-to-shell, failed. Maybe I started with an obsolete Raspbian image...
If you are using Arch Linux, please install the X11 server. Follow the steps in Archlinux Beginners Guide first. And install your favorite WM.
Add thise lines to your
~/.xinitrc:#!/bin/sh # # ~/.xinitrc # # Executed by startx (run your window manager from here) if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f" done unset f fi exec openbox-session ## I'm using window manager Openbox (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbox>) #exec awesomeStart X when logging in. Add the following to the bottom of
~/.bash_profileif you usebash. Or~/.zprofileif you're are usingzsh. See more on the Arch Linux Wiki.[[ -z $DISPLAY && $XDG_VTNR -eq 1 ]] && exec startx
Note this works on raspbian as well. xxmbabanexx's answer didn't work for me (I think because I have a `.xinitrc`?), but I added `exec startx` to `~/.profile` and it's working now.
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kolin 7 years ago
Can you expand on which distribution are you using?