Re: found net prob, temp fixed. installed xfce4, how to autostart it?
On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:47:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings; Rock64, minimal stretch install.
>
> I'd like to auto-start xfce4 on a rock64. Its installed now but startx
> can't be found.
>
Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login manager
- I'll check :)
> Also, I'm getting warnings as I install stuff because the locale isn't
> set, how do I fix that on the arm64 version of stretch? I see
> an /etc/locale.gen but while running locale does setup some stuff, the
> timezone isn't affected, nor the LANGUAGE setting. And the clock is off
> 4 hours fast as its on UTC. The timezone file
> contains "America/New_York" w/o the quotes.
>
Rock64 uses sudo rather than straight su
sudo su -
[Use the password you know]
dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata
dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales
should do it. That asks the low level questions and allows you to check
changes made.
> I will make the comment that this rock64 is at least 20x faster than the
> raspi-3b, plumb amazing. I've installed a bunch of stuff in the last 20
> minutes that the pi would be about a late dinner time this evening
> doing.
>
> Thanks all.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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