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Repeatable behaviour found - getting closer! Might be tied to fonts. On my machines and screens .. If one chooses the defaults for Medium-Screens in the Appearance>Defaults menu, and makes no further adjustments to the system fonts , then VLC works as expected. Removing and reinstalling vlc is no qu...

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DRAT! This solution isn't repeatable. It's back, although this time the top level menu's have gone away on another machine.

Gonna' work on it for a *repeatable* solution amongst several boxes. Um, nothing to see here except someone putting foot in mouth.

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On some of my systems I install RPI Desktop for PC/MAC to, when I fire up VLC Media Player, a large horizontal bar covers much of the screen and is impossible to get rid of - there are no handles available to close that unreadable popup. But there is an easy fix. It reads like a lot, but once you do...

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Ignoring for the moment the ability to reach the firmware, here is one reason given by the sdcard association to use their formatter - because some deviate from the spec: https://www.sdcard.org/press/thoughtleadership/the-sd-memory-card-formatterhow-this-handy-tool-solves-your-memory-card-formatting...

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Heh, ok I was trying to keep it on the light-hearted side. Rather than let this go into endless debate, I think Eben would have the pull to confirm that only the SDcard association has the keys to get into your card, and reprogram the firmware - along with doing a reformat. Otherwise, their formatte...

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Does it have to be an Altair? How about an IMSAI 8080 kit! If you want to flip switches, the guys over at thehighnibble.com seem popular. Dave does a lot of kit build and operation vids, there the "IMSAI GUY" - here's one that might seem interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXpLKA...

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I think more likely education is the cover story Nope it was for education right from the start. The fact that industry spotted the potential of these cheap, reliable, tiny, well supported computers means industry is not stupid. Sometimes success is measured by a different metric. Yep. It goes furt...

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P.S. - if you've become a fan of installing the RPI Desktop for PC/MAC on SD / micro-sd cards, just know that the out of box format is "tuned" internally in firmware for Windows or Mac. Even if you reformat with Linux, it can't touch the firmware. What? Why should I care? We need to go dee...

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So you want to dual-boot the RPI Desktop for PC/MAC with another operating system, but just don't want to go nerd-like levels (I am one) to do so with multi-partitioning, or becoming a Grub wizard. Tip: If your machine has SD-card or micro-SD card slots, and the bios allows you to boot from them, co...

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Sounds like a hardware issue cropping up, since you can no longer even boot the original usb image. I'd try making a new one with a *new* flash-drive as your first diagnostic step.

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Is that an NVMe ssd? Makes me wonder if that ssd is not compatible with the machine. Other searches revealed turning off raid-support in bios, although I can't imagine that for that old netbook. But mebbe' ... NVMe is supported, but it might be a hardware boot/ recognition thing for a circa 2008 bas...

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The most common answer I find when searching for this is to upgrade your version of Putty to 0.67 or greater.

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More of a Debian thing, which the RPI Desktop for PC/MAC rests upon. What were the "old fixes" you used? I've run into this with that chipset long ago, and had to use the i915.invert_brightness or i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel boot parameter. Frustrating, as the screen brightness is...

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How long did you wait? Sometimes systemd will wait for a timeout for ethernet for example if it isn't attached or wireless configured. I'd try again with the latest version, (release Jul 1, 2022) Sometimes what you describe can be worked around by using the "nomodeset" option as a kernel p...

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More of a Debian thing than here.

However, don't let this stop you if it results in more gray hairs.

While waiting / testing for a solution, purchase an inexpensive usb <> ethernet dongle. Nearly universally recognized and will get you on the air with the RPI Desktop for PC/MAC easily.

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** WARNING ** for slightly more advanced users ... So you've put in a lot of time getting the RPI Desktop for PC/MAC just to your liking after installation. And perhaps have done some major updates after many months beyond the initial release date. But you'd like to have an image backup in case you ...

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Here is what my ~.config/redshift.conf looks like for Los Angeles. It is pretty simple. I looked up the latitude and longitude online and had to write the redshift.conf file myself. [redshift] temp-day=5700 temp-night=3500 fade=1 gamma=0.8 location-provider=manual adjustment-method=randr [manual] la...

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So it is past midnight and my eyes are bleeding on the forum. Looked for a blue-light filter, and am happy to report that "Redshift" from the software repo works fine, albeit with a small quirk. It shows up in the menu structure, so if you click on it, you'll be running two instances of it...

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If you have a spare usb port available, it might be a better idea to use a more modern usb<>wifi dongle instead. I have used some branded "Panda", and they are listed as Linux compatible out of the box relying on non-proprietary drivers, so nothing to install or fiddle with. There are othe...

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Sounds like you have changed your boot device to run the RPI Desktop PC/Mac live. Then when you install, did you forget to remove the live usb before it asks for reboot? Been there when I was in a hurry and forgot.

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P.S. - These 8.1 machines are already UEFI, so when installing using the Debian installer, I chose to "force uefi" since I was blowing away the entire disk with guided partitioning "using entire disk" and not intending to dual-boot or do anything fancy. Just mentioning it in case...

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I'm still loving the RPI Desktop for PC/Mac! The modified LXDE is still just gorgeous and finely polished. Traveling with it on my usb stick I saved a few machines recently .. At a friend's place, there are a few Windows 8.1 machines about to go EOL in about a month or so, and he's freaking out. Nev...

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Ah, do you mean the LXpanel? Perhaps you have hidden it and forgot.

To get back to it:

Roll mouse to top of screen until it appears.
Right-click.

Panel Settings > Advanced > Automatic Hiding

UNcheck:
[ ] Minimize panel when not in use

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Earlier I had reported on my success using a Chromebox where everything worked just fine, but the late entry of the keyboard response during boot prevented me from making any choices like using persistence or not. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=295231 This occurred on *...

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I'm not into retro-computing either and wouldn't go back if I could - however the *ideals* are still sound. I guess I'm in an appreciative mood for both Cambridge and Dartmouth based upon what's under my fingertips, albeit it is a long historical stretch of things not implemented to be productized.....

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