pineuser user here- want to get mate or xcfe

General Discussion
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Hello,


i have a pinebook 1080 p

I am trying to change lxde to mate but when i restart the laptop it asks for the login in a terminal type of interface and i cannot launch to the UI .

I am relatively new to linux but i was hoping to change the interface to something similar to this:
https://lubuntu.me/lubuntu-software-center/

basically its easier to me to pull downloads off the download center and then select wifi connections etc…
Instead i need to manually set and scan the wifi connection among other things.

The default image the pinebook installer picks up seems to register a UK keyboard layout which i have a bit of problems changing to USA.

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Maybe this will help
https://wiki.debian.org/Xfce
go down to Install Xfce in an already installed system

Not sure if compatible with dietpi startup scripts…might need to ask a DEV

3

tofu
Did you try dietpi-software to achieve that?

  1. Uninstall LXDE desktop
  2. Install desired desktop
  3. Use dietpi-autostart to choose between auto login and graphical login mask to deskop.

But hmm, just remembered: https://github.com/Fourdee/DietPi/issues/2404
If the above does not work, we will investigate.

Hmm if you did the above, and you want a graphical desktop login mask (no auto login) could you try: systemctl enable lightdm and then reboot?
Not 100% sure, but can’t find where we enable this in code. Desktop auto login however should work fine.