Tag: linux
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RetroPie Command Line Improvements
First, I recommend the general raspberry pi command line upgrades that I’ve previously written about. Second, I like to add three command line shortcuts to quickly allow restarting Emulation Station, running RetroPie Setup, or quitting Emulation Station from the command line. (Quitting Emulation Station from the command line is particularly useful in the SSH context,…
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Best VNC Server for Raspberry Pi
In configuring my Google Calendar Raspberry Pi, I found that x11vnc was more useful than TightVNC, primarily because it allowed me to mirror my local desktop image to my computer. Install and Set Password sudo apt-get install x11vnc x11vnc -storepasswd
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A Fourth Raspberry Pi – Ad Blocking Throughout Home Network
Installed Pi-Hole on an old Raspberry Pi Model B this weekend. Initially installed using DietPi (which looks awesome, and I intend to play with more soon), but then redid with the official Raspbian Jessie Lite image and the instructions on the Pi-Hole website. Because of U-Verse’s networking requirements (including the use of AT&T’s DNS servers), DNS…
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Raspberry Pi WordPress Crash
For the third or fourth time in the last two years (or so), my Raspberry Pi WordPress installation has crashed. Once I was able to fix relatively quickly, with little or no data loss. The others… not so much. I even had a full backup on my latest installation… I thought. Trying to use that…
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Upgrade Command Line
Upgrades the command line interface commands on a Raspberry Pi to allow for quicker recall of previously entered commands, as well as greater leniency in identifying appropriate folder and file names for auto complete purposes. Requires re-login to enable. cd ~ sudo nano .inputrc “e[A”: history-search-backward “e[B”: history-search-forward set show-all-if-ambiguous on set completion-ignore-case on
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htop Installation
For a better visualization of running processes in Raspbian, I’ve been pleased with htop. To install: sudo apt-get install htop