@sdetweil yes, in fact, i had it all working yesterday till I accident broken my sd card. I had to rebuild everything today.

@sdetweil

XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
DISPLAY=:0.0

@sdetweil

just did that and the error is below

magicmirror@2.11.0 start /home/jeff/MagicMirror
electron js/electron.js

No protocol specified

(electron:32527): Gtk-WARNING **: 21:53:58.634: cannot open display: :0.0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.11.0 start: electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.11.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/jeff/.npm/_logs/2020-06-24T01_53_58_663Z-debug.log

@sdetweil

I tried both. I even deleted the whole folder and reinstalled. Maybe electron is the problem.

@sdetweil

I did and the same thing

@sdetweil

Raspberry pi 4 raspbrian

I can do “npm run server” but not “npm run start”

Any takers?

magicmirror@2.11.0 start /home/jeff/MagicMirror
DISPLAY=“${DISPLAY:=:0}” ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js

No protocol specified

(electron:17603): Gtk-WARNING **: 18:42:53.065: cannot open display: :0.0
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! magicmirror@2.11.0 start: DISPLAY="${DISPLAY:=:0}" ./node_modules/.bin/electron js/electron.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the magicmirror@2.11.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/jeff/.npm/_logs/2020-06-23T22_42_53_102Z-debug.log