Adding useful Software

Requests
1

My suggestions for useful Software to adding in dietpi-software:

inxi ; small system hard and softwarelisting via terminal
cockpit ; dashboard and terminal from browser (from Windows without putty :wink:)
x11vnc ; vncserver for remote access to the user-desktop (not root-only by default), compatible with UltraVNCviewer in Windows

2

Hey, thx for your suggestions. Did you check out dietpi-dashboard, it can also be accesses via a web browser and also have a CLI build in.

3

Hi,
i had the dietpi-dashboard installed and try to login with http://myip:5252
but i get the error “method not allowed” and the dietpi-dashboard no ask for Password.

Cockpit had not make problems, its easyer to use.

4

It would be good to report issues to our dietpi-dashboard Github. This way it can be fixed.

BTW: just checked latest nightly and it is working without issues on my test system

5

Should be quite simple to install manually. Usually we don’t add such software title to our catalogue

apt install inxi

Result will be following

root@DietPiR5S:~# inxi
CPU: Quad Core Model N/A (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1416/408/1992 MHz Kernel: 5.10.110 aarch64 Up: 1m
Mem: 202.6/1958.1 MiB (10.3%) Storage: 11.03 GiB (14.3% used) Procs: 137 Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.01
root@DietPiR5S:~#
6

ok, it’s trivial, but usefull. Or take it directly in the images.
Function of inxi :
possible switches from inxi -v1 to -v7 (-v8 as root)

inix -v7 ; view all as user
sudo inxi -v8 view all as root

7

This would be exactly the opposite of what we are aiming for. We try to run our images with less packages as possible.

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8

Would be a cool list of apps - “these things will help stock installs”

post up what you put on and what it does for you and see if others like those as well

9

Found this thread via search.
I am using one dietpi as chromium kiosk mode without desktop
Would be nice to have x11vnc available as option in the software center like other vnc variants.
Thereby I can remotely manage and see what is on the screen.
As far as I know does now work with other vnc variants which require desktop.

10

TigerVNC and RealVNC can btw be used as well to connect to a local shared desktop session. There is an option in /boot/dietpi.txt to enable it instead of default virtual desktop session.

But indeed currently they pull a desktop as well. Probably we can liberalize this.