Userinterface on the Raspi monitor

Round333

Hello,
its nice to have the possibility to operate with the mobil phone or PC. But why isn't it possible to operate on the raspberry connected monitor? Is it possible to start a browser like avahi with the operate web page instead of the logon screen?

Midnight

You have to install a X server and a browser, then you can do this.
This needs a lot of more space on the SD card. Also it's not what the majority of users needs because you also have to connect mouse and keyboard to control it.

cmh714

and that will cause a reasonable performance hit on the Pi due to the graphics overhead.

Round333

Hello Midnight,
thank you for the information. Ok I understand, but I think its worth a try. The SD Card is 16GB and the music is on the NAS. Can you give me a pointer how to install the X Server? If it doesn't work I can still use the handy.

Midnight wroteYou have to install a X server and a browser, then you can do this.
This needs a lot of more space on the SD card. Also it's not what the majority of users needs because you also have to connect mouse and keyboard to control it.

Midnight

Hi,
I'm not a regular Arch Linux user (the Runeaudio base system), so I cannot tell the exact steps. You have to login to your player via ssh and use pacman to install the desired software. Maybe pacman -S firefox is enough to get the browser and it's dependencies.

Pacman manual: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman