- How to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on Windows or macOS Step 1: Download and install VirtualBox Because we’re going to run Raspberry Pi Desktop on a virtual machine, we’ll need to download Oracle VM VirtualBox.
- Put your SD card in the Raspberry Pi, boot, and connect. The next step is to put the micro SD card into the Pi, boot, and then try to connect via WiFi. Build your own! You can do this.
Connecting the screen. This cable looks just like a Pi camera cable, and fits into the connector on the edge of the board nearest the SD card slot. At the driver board end, the gold contacts on the ribbon cable should face upwards away from the LCD panel. The ribbon should then loop around and plug into the Pi, which is mounted on the back of the assembly.
Follow Kevin Hooke's adventures in getting a keyboard set up for his Raspberry Pi touchscreen.
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Join For FreeI just received one if these very cool 7″ touchscreens for the Raspberry Pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-touch-display/
I have the default logon prompt when my Pi starts up; so the first challenge is how do you log on without a real keyboard attached without having to disable the logon? There are a number of onscreen keyboards available. Based on this thread I installed Florence:
sudo apt-get install florence
Then I edited /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf adding ~a11y; for the Accessibility icon on the logon screen, and keyboard=florence so it appears in the menu.
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The keyboard now appears, but as soon as I press a key it disappears. From this thread, installing at-spi2-core appears to fix the issue:
Install On Screen Keyboard Raspberry Pink
sudo apt-get install at-spi2-core
This seems to fix the keyboard not disappearing, but not having any luck getting characters to appear in the username/password fields. Still some investigation to do on this one.