disable X11 lightdm

[emadragon]

I have a problem, I had a magic mirror on RPI 3B+ I had to rotate the screen by X11 screen configuration cause dysplay rotate doesn’t work…

Now, when I start the mirror, start X11 Desktop manager than Magic Mirror, can I disable the Desktop manager in the background and start only the mirror

Thanks

[sdetweil]

@emadragon no… MM uses a browser which requires the graphical desktop to display content

which OS are you on?

lsb_release -a

will show you

[emadragon]

Raspian gnu/linux 11 bullseye

[sdetweil]

@emadragon the desktop has a config panel under menu top left, preferences, display where you can do the rotate

[emadragon]

@sdetweil yes, I have done, but now, when i start the mirror, I have lxde on the background…
Is correct ?

[sdetweil]

@emadragon said in disable X11 lightdm:

I have lxde on the background

i don’t know what you mean

what is ‘start the mirror’? boot, or type a command, if command, what command

how did you install mm? manual , or my script?

what did you do to ‘start’ the mirror on boot if a manual install?

[emadragon]

@sdetweil I used MM as in the Magic Mirror documentation, now, when Rasperry Boot, start Lxde, than start Magic Mirror

How can i start only Magic Mirror ?
It’s possible?

[sdetweil]

@emadragon I don’t know…

my scripts use the node process manager (pm2) so that its the same on every platform

see
https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror_scripts

the fixuppm2 script at the bottom of the page…

then u would undo what the lxde setup was

then its auto started on boot…
but you can control it with the pm2 command

pm2 status
pm2 stop xx (or all)
pm2 start xx (or all)
pm2 restart xx

output is captured to two logs

pm2 logs --lines=nn
(nn is some number, 15 by default)

you can redirect that output to a file to view it if there issues

during development and test, I don’t use pm2, I just

cd ~/MagicMirror
npm start >somefile.txt 2>&1

then it captures all the output to ~/MagicMirror/somefile.txt
ctrl-q on the MM screen stops it
ctrl-m minimizes

once u have everything working , then reboot or pm2 start all