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    Background is white?

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      martaaay @sdetweil
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      @sdetweil Hmm, interesting. The linux bootup sequence seems to work just fine though. Then the screen goes white with a mouse cursor briefly in the middle. The mouse cursor disappears and then I have a white background with little black blocks containing things like the time and news. Is that still sounding like it could be a cable issue?

      I attached a pic to see if that helps with my description. ![0_1630008747296_IMG_7512_2.jpg](Uploading 100%)

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        martaaay @martaaay
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        Hmm, uploading not working. Trying this:alt text

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          sdetweil @martaaay
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          @martaaay what does the raspi desktop look like? the temple?

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            For whatever reason, the screen is getting the initial white fill, then not getting the blanking as MM runs.

            I personally wonder what would happen if a full screen background module was used - example, https://github.com/darickc/MMM-BackgroundSlideshow

            The "E" in "Javascript" stands for "Easy"

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              sdetweil @BKeyport
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              @bkeyport I wonder if electron thinks its a b&w display

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                martaaay @BKeyport
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                @sdetweil Sorry my ignorance - is there an easy way to boot to just the raspberry pi desktop?

                @BKeyport I tried adding MMM-EasyBack, and used this config with the default background image. It seems to cause it to boot sometimes into an all white screen and stay that way, and sometimes it boots into my weird white background with some items in the foreground, but no background. So odd!

                Is there a log for errors somewhere?

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                  martaaay @sdetweil
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                  @sdetweil FWIW on the B&W issue, I used MMM-EasyBack with a youtubeid, and the youtube video appeared, though only taking part of the screen with white behind the elements as before. The youtube video had color in it, IIRC.

                  I think I’ve sufficiently messed things up tinkering around. Haha. I’m going to reflash this sd card and try again.

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                    sdetweil @martaaay
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                    @martaaay use my install script…

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

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                      martaaay @sdetweil
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                      @sdetweil Is that intended to be run from a fresh Raspbian install?

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                        sdetweil @martaaay
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                        @martaaay said in Background is white?:

                        is there an easy way to boot to just the raspberry pi desktop?

                        just alt-spacebar, n

                        to minimize MM after startup

                        then u can open a terminal window (ctrl-alt-t)
                        and pm2 stop all

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