Display, how to start GUI?

[Christian123]

Hi,

I have bought a Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Touchscreen Display for Raspberry Pi. There’s a descripition for the installation of the touchscreen Display under https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pit ... sy-install. I took the easy install possibility and it worked. That means I can use the Terminal and print Images on screen.

My problem is that I don’t know how to start the GUI/Desktop??
Thanks in advance.

[B.Goode]

Do the instructions in the adafruit documentation not work?

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pit ... s-on-pitft

[DirkS]

And if you want to start the GUI from the command line:

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FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx

Or you can add a line to .profile (if the auto setup has not done that already) and just use startx.

From https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-pit ... stallation:

You can now try to run X again with

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FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx

Type Control-C to quit X

If you don't ever want to have to type FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 before startx, you can make it a default state by editing your profile file: sudo nano ~/.profile and adding

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export FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1

near the top and saving the file. Then reboot to reload the profile file. It will now always assume you want to use /dev/fb1

Gr.
Dirk.

[DougieLawson]

Follow the instructions here: https://github.com/notro/fbtft/wiki/Framebuffer-use

You need to create an xorg.conf.d file to force X to use the FB1 device.

[Christian123]

You are right. I forgot the "FRAMEBUFFER=/dev/fb1 startx" command. It's working now.

Thank you all very much.