Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
How to go back to Pi homepage
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alt-spacebar, n
will minimize the MM app window… (just like on windows to minimize an app)…
ssh server is not setup by default… so you would have to do that manually
https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/configuration/raspberry-pi-how-to-set-up-an-ssh-server/
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Another option is
Ctrl+Alt+t
which should open a terminal window. From there you can install the OpenSSH server, stop the Magic mirror process (pm2 stop all
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@bhepler ctrl-alt-t won’t open a terminal window if MM is shown on the screen… that was his problem… he didn’t know how to get back to the desktop
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@sdetweil - Sure it will. If he can’t SSH into the Pi due to “connection failed error”, he has to be connecting directly to it and using the mirror’s screen.
Ctrl+Alt+t
will give him a terminal on the pi and he can then shut down the Magic Mirror process. Now that I think about it, he can also just runsudo raspi-config
without shutting down the MM process, which should give him the option to install the SSH server.Now that I think about it, opening a terminal window may be hidden by the electron process. You can
Alt+Tab
to it, but it’s not something I included in my post. Hrm. I should do some experimenting. -
@bhepler that’s why I said minimze the mm UI. Back to the desktop, then all works… Then put mm UI back on screen by selecting it from the Task bar or alt tab