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by Karel Adams
Sat Sep 07, 2019 8:59 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: X not starting at boot ; /usr/bin/X not found
Replies: 2
Views: 483

Re: X not starting at boot ; /usr/bin/X not found

Thanks! I ought to have thought of that, but didn't. Unfortunately, this is not the cause: / has 2,7 GB free, or 22% of its 13GB capacity. /boot is not full either - not that that one would be very relevant for this issue, I think. There are no other filesystems, except tmpfs My suspicion is that th...
by Karel Adams
Sat Sep 07, 2019 6:43 am
Forum: Raspberry Pi OS
Topic: X not starting at boot ; /usr/bin/X not found
Replies: 2
Views: 483

X not starting at boot ; /usr/bin/X not found

My Raspberry PI had been unused for several weeks. Today I wanted to use it again, it booted as usual but there comes no graphic desktop. Booting terminates at the text mode "login:" prompt. I could log in, as root, and executed startx command. This came back with: "/usr/bin/X not found" which sound...
by Karel Adams
Fri May 06, 2016 1:02 pm
Forum: General programming discussion
Topic: What language/toolkit to use?
Replies: 0
Views: 361

What language/toolkit to use?

I have been asked to create software for a data logger on a (bunch of) RPi B+. The data arrives either through GPIO or per USB and is logged in straight asci text files, more or less csv-like, no problem there. My task is to display information from the various logs in a graphical format, a kind of ...
by Karel Adams
Sat Oct 17, 2015 9:40 am
Forum: Graphics programming
Topic: XCB development: library missing?
Replies: 1
Views: 2490

XCB development: library missing?

I am developing my own application, using the XCB library on Raspbian. Mostly I follow the excellent tutorial on http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.7/doc/libxcb/tutorial/index.html All went well until I wanted to set the title on a window. Since adding the stanza /* Set the title of the window */ xcb_c...

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