How to lauch Piplay main menu from desktop/ command line
  • cosmicalien
    Hello again, how do I get back to the Piplay menu from the desktop? I have tried typing sudo python /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/launchmenu.py from the command line and all the F1-F10 and shift combinations. At the moment I am having to reboot my pi everytime I I want to play a game. The only way I can get it to launch piplay is from the initial boot. thanks
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    That should work. does it give you an error?
    Have you tried logging out of the desktop and then trying it, or are you just running a console window inside of the desktop?
  • cosmicalien
    I'm kind of getting there now after alot of trial and error, I find if I stay away from the desktop it's alot easier. I run into too many problems moving around from there. I've got my own advance menu running now and I type advmenu from the command line to get into it. It's seperate from the whole Piplay menu. Can you tell me how to get the Pi to boot straight to command line so Im in my home/pi directory without any logon and password please. and what is the command to open file explorer. sorry for the noob questions lol.
  • mholgatemmholgatem
    oh, hey. I thought that I already posted an answer to your initial question. So you need to cd into the /home/pi/pimame/pimame-menu/ directory first, then do python launchmenu.py

    As for your second question:
    sudo nano /etc/inittab
    comment out (put '#' at beginning of) this line:
    1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 115200 tty1
    immediately after that line, add this:
    1:2345:respawn:/bin/login -f pi tty1 </dev/tty1 >/dev/tty1 2>&1
  • cosmicalien
    great thanks, I'll try that. Yes you may have done, its been a confusing week. :)
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