@BKeyport @KristjanESPERANTO Turns out I owe you some thanks, if only because you got me thinking and questioning my assumptions.

I had previously assumed the anchor process of an X server needed to be an X application, but that turned out to be not the case, so the whole blackpixel executable could be removed entirely, eliminating a major contributor to the script size and a maintenance headache for me.

It does make the script even more obscure and alien though. That’s easily the strangest X config I’ve ever created.

Code is updated.

@KristjanESPERANTO What are you talking about, the listing of those config files is right there in the comments, and the purpose of that binary is quite obvious if you have a basic knowledge of Linux and Xorg. Also the file name the binary gets stored under is a dead giveaway. Don’t expect me to spoon-feed you obvious information.

Hey everyone,

There’s a new install script in town.

It’s designed to have as small a footprint in disk usage and system resources as possible and provide a fire-and-forget hands-off install from a fresh system to a running MM. It can easily install on an SD card as small as 8GB and works well on older and smaller Pi’s, so long as they can handle a current OS.

It’s available for your perusal at https://github.com/tfischer4765/mm-install/ .

The script is currently in beta, and I’d be very grateful if everyone who has the time tested it and tried their best to break it.

Thanks for your help!

pi@mmtest:~ $ mpstat
Linux 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-v8 (mmtest)        02/09/24        _aarch64_       (4 CPU)

22:02:38     CPU    %usr   %nice    %sys %iowait    %irq   %soft  %steal  %guest  %gnice   %idle
22:02:38     all    0.09    0.00    0.07    0.04    0.00    0.01    0.00    0.00    0.00   99.80
pi@mmtest:~ $ free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:           907Mi       378Mi       175Mi        32Mi       437Mi       528Mi
Swap:          199Mi       2.5Mi       197Mi
pi@mmtest:~ $ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            318M     0  318M   0% /dev
tmpfs            91M 1016K   90M   2% /run
/dev/mmcblk0p2  6.9G  3.1G  3.4G  48% /
tmpfs           454M   17M  438M   4% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M   12K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
/dev/mmcblk0p1  510M   64M  447M  13% /boot/firmware
tmpfs            91M     0   91M   0% /run/user/1000

Thank you very much for your great work! That is exactly what I needed. Coming from stringently typed languages like C and Java, ever since I discovered Typescript I find plain Javascript increasingly tedious.