@RB14060
LIKE! Will copy/cannibalize
Thanks for sharing

@KirAsh4
Now I have question that is probably painfully obvious to anyone but me (I’m an old physicist and drive around in SQL all day long – don’t ask; I have no idea about hardcoding CSS.)

IF I want to change the font of, say, the compliments,
THEN I poke around and see that part of compliments.js

    var compliment = document.createTextNode(complimentText);
    var wrapper = document.createElement("div");
    wrapper.className = "thin xlarge bright";

Cool: I could redefine, say, xlarge in my custom.css. But that seems a silly hack, and I’d mess up everything else that also uses xlarge. Not good. Much better to change the color of compliments only. How do I do that? Say I want

compliments
.color: #3CF
.font-size: 80px
.line-height: 80px
.font.family: "Ariel"

I suspect that this is very obvious how to change my custom.css, but you guys all seem helpful :)
Hey: I already figured out how to push things around on the screen to where I want them to be. Next, I have to stretch everything, since the fonts seem a bit compressed. Lots of fun. Ultimately I’ll write my own modules, I hope.

Thanks in advance!

@KirAsh4
THX. Will spend some happy time fiddling with all the stuff. “Wasted” 2 days on getting MM2 up on a brand-new Pi3, but the ‘wife-acceptance-factor’ is already awfully high :) Now I have to just customize it to the n-th degree…

@Sachin
I’d be interested in your config too - specifically making the compliments a different color / font size. Probably not that difficult, but I always find it easiest to “program by cannibalizing” :) What good is an idea if nobody steals it? Anyway, if you would post at clean-ed up version of your config, I’d appreciate it…

Looks great!

@Bangee
THAT was easy (duh)

Thanks. How do I mark this as closed/resolved?

Probably something I should know, but

I am in the process of customizing my MM2 - and I am NOT in front of it.
So I RDP over to it on one of my monitors, start a terminal and launch MM.
Since I am now locked out, I have to use PUTTY to work on it on a different monitor.
i change stuff and then sudo reboot. Every time.

There must be a better way of stopping and starting MM2.
Help?

Thanks!

@Corvis1984
I found this one
https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/236/complete-setup-tutorial/2
and it worked like a charm… (and it it so detailed even I could not mess it up)

On top of that, it is lean and made my WiFi FINALLY work too. Now all I need is the toaster attachment to my Pi

Best of luck!

I have the same error - running it on a headless Pi3 (ie I Putty in from elsewhere and monitor the output from elsewhere too).
I have been told that I should not run MM from the CLI, but rather that "The application needs to be started while the GUI-environment is running.’

Can you please confirm if you are running ON THE PI directly or if you SSH’ed in?