Raspberry and 320 x 240 lcd monitor

[mrdebug]

Hi. I'm trying my raspberry pi with a 320 x 240 lcd monitor. All works well bnut I want do start the gui with startx and an application without using lxde.
How can I do this? I have spend on a lot of time without the solution.

Can you help me?

[bust]

Hi
Try this command line xinit -e (your graphic X11 program)
but same you don't have (WM) to move or resize the window
better you use
xinit -e openbox and after you would load your program from an x terminal
You have have also xfwm4 for replace openbox if you want,
(required you install xterm i think)
xfwm4 will manage only the windows.
Regards

[bust]

I have forget that you have also another choice it's to use (wayland with weston)

[Douglas6]

I have a similar problem, I think. Your question is confusing, because 'startx' starts lxde, so you can't have one without the other. What you may want (what I want) is to start a full-screen lxde app at boot without ever seeing the desktop.

What I have so far is autologin and an .xsession file with the commandline to start my (Java Swing) application. This way when I type 'startx' my app opens full-screen, and when I exit the app, I'm back at the command line. All the usual suspects to automate that 'startx' don't seem to work (raspi-config, .profile, /etc/local.d, a few others)

Any help?

[EDIT: Hmmmmm, xinit looks interesting, I'll have to play with that, thanks bust]

[Douglas6]

Naturally, after googling long and hard, I was led right back to this forum for the correct answer: http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewt ... p?p=344408

One small change for use with a different framebuffer:
Step 1. edit /etc/rc.local

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sudo nano /etc/rc.local

And add the following two lines at the bottom, just before 'exit 0'

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export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1
su -s /bin/bash -c startx pi &

Step 2. Just to be sure, make sure everyone can start x sessions:

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure x11-common

and make sure 'anybody' is selected.
Step 3. Specify the program to start in X. Edit /home/pi/.xinitrc

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nano ~/.xinitrc

and enter the command to start your program. In my case it was

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java -jar /home/pi/pipoint.jar -f

Change 'pi' everywhere to your user name. More detail in DaveDriesen's post, linked above. Works like a champ, thanks Dave!