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Under Preferences, there is a "Customise Look and Feel" application. Sudo apt-get purge xscreensaver Preferences You can remove the annoying screensaver with the following command. CleanupĬhange the desktop background to something bland, a plain light colour.

You now have the Debian Raspbian LXDE desktop. You can now start raspi-cinfig again, sudo raspi-config, select Boot Options, then select Desktop Autologin. The download is 25 megabytes and it uses 35.1 megabytes on disk.Ī large chunk of the LightDM download is gnome theme junk.
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You now have time to use the boiled water to make and drink that coffee.Įnter the following command to install the LightDM login manager. Sudo apt-get install lxde-core lxterminal lxappearance

The download is 71 megabytes and it uses 242 megabytes on disk. You may never need this but the download is only 2.6 megabytes and it uses only 6.4 megabytes on disk.Įnter the following command to install LXDE. The install takes a couple of minutes, long enough to put the kettle on for a cup of tea or coffee.Įnter the following command to install an Xorg command line start option. The download is 26.1 megabytes and it uses 72 megabytes on disk. Enter the following command to install Xorg. We will install it here without all the extras, the games and other junk.
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LXDE is the light weight graphical user interface installed in the full version of Raspbian.
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You normally do this only after a major upgrade when packages are replaced by something different. You can also enter the following command to remove obsolete items. There was nothing downloaded by this step. The increase in disk space is only 0.295 megabytes.Įnter the following command to install more updates. You will see errors if the Wifi has not connected.Įnter the following command to install updates.
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Update the current softwareĮnter the following command to update the operating system's list of available packages. Ctrl-x closes the Nano editor.īack at the command line, enter sudo reboot to restart the network and test the wireless configuration will work when you boot up the machine. In the Nano editor, add the following lines to the end of the current entries.Ĭtrl-o starts the file write then press Enter to complete the write.

If the file is empty, you may have typed a name wrong in the previous command.Ĭtrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant The file should contain lines similar to the following. You need that plus the password for the network.Įnter the following command to edit one of the Wifi configuration files. There is more detail about this step in Enter the following command to find your local Wifi networks. You have to select the Internationalisation four times to set the four options. Change the locale, timezone, keyboard layout, and Wifi country. Select Internationalisation Options to fix up the country and keyboard settings. Select Console Autologin to automatically log you in as pi, saving you a couple of seconds. Select Boot Options to change the login at boot time. You will see some command line stuff rush past then a message about the resize happening on the next reboot. Select Expand Filesystem to expand Raspbian across the whole microSD card.
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Raspbian will start, run through some Linux command line stuff, then display the following.Įnter the user id, pi, then the password raspberry.Įnter the following command to open the Raspberry Pi Software Configuration Tool. Insert the microSD card in the Raspberry Pi then start the device. Partition 2 is a 1.3 GB Ext4 partition named Filesystem. Partition 1 is a 63 MB FAT boot partition named boot. The Raspbian Lite image file expands out to two partitions on the microSD card. Buy a fast card because the card is the system disk. You load Raspbian Lite onto a microSD card. Raspbian Lite uses only 1.4 gigabytes on disk instead of the 4 gigabytes swallowed by the full version. The Lite version has no graphical user interface and none of the application junk. Raspbian Lite uses the same Debian Linux base as Raspbian. The current version is Raspbian Buster Lite.) (This article describes an earlier version of Raspbian Lite, Raspbian Jessie Lite. We need the reduced memory usage compared to a full install of Raspbian. We want to use Raspbian Lite with the LXDE graphical user interface on a Raspberry Pi Zero.
