desktopify
Convert Ubuntu Server for Raspberry Pi into a Desktop (by wimpysworld)
screenFetch
Fetches system/theme information in terminal for Linux desktop screenshots. (by KittyKatt)
| desktopify | screenFetch | |
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| 6 | 4 | |
| 523 | 3,733 | |
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| 0.0 | 4.6 | |
| 7 months ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
desktopify
Posts with mentions or reviews of desktopify.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-14.
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Running an ARM laptop using Ubuntu server? And another server witg GUI question.
Note: I have no experience with ARM servers (only some play using raspberry pi's) , but if it was me I'd likely explore desktopify if you're wanting a Ubuntu system (including flavors of Ubuntu)
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How can I get an arm64 version of Lubuntu?
The easiest method however is just install using an existing system (eg. server), then run desktopify which was written/intended for raspberry pi's, but is pretty easy to adapt to other arm64 systems if you're not using a r.pi. but other arm64 system.
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Manjaro on the RPI4 with full disk encryption and remote unlock
I tried Manjaro for 64 bit setup. Initially could not figure out how to force resolution of a 4K tv to HD, so changing resolution on Desktop would not scale well. Went with Ubuntu server and used desktopify. Had to research about how to avoid tv setting certain resolution at boot. May be I will give Manjaro another try. Not sure about Arch though. I have bluetooth mouse and keyboard, therefore only way to use any input is by enabling ssh at first boot.
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Lubuntu DE not working on Raspberry Pi 400.
I'd suggest looking up the `desktopify` project created by Martin Wimpress. There is more than just loading `lubuntu-desktop` required for a Pi (at least for 20.10 & 20.04 as I recall; I've never looked at 21.04), and even if you don't use the desktopify script; it contains clues on doing it yourself anyway (for any of the Ubuntu flavors). https://github.com/wimpysworld/desktopify
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Where to get the image of Ubuntu 20.04 desktop for raspberry pi
However, you can install the 20.04 server version and then run a script called desktopify to convert it.
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Where can I download Ubuntu 20.04 focal desktop which I can flash onto an SD card and run on my RPi?
20.10 is the first Ubuntu release to officially support the desktop environment. If the server image doesn't suit your needs by itself, you could install 20.04 server and then use Wimpy's script Desktopify to add the desktop environment.
screenFetch
Posts with mentions or reviews of screenFetch.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-09-14.
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screenfetch broken, unsure if im just missing dependencies or if it just doesn't work on my system [more info in comments]
For all the people being super rude to the asker, 20s of googling shows you that (a) this script is supposed to work on MacOS, and (b) there was a bug that caused this exact problem and is fixed, but there has been no release of the utility since the fix (so I imagine it's not fixed in macports/homebrew).
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'clear' command not fully clearing terminal
Can you try a different system profiler? https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch
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Windows 10 Desktop + WSL2 Ubuntu Terminal
[Screenfetch](https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch) - Without the distro logo
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'Icon theme "gnome" not found'
Well, yes, these are nothing serious, just a debug/log kind of messages. You could just start your apps with launchers and desktop files instead of starting them in a terminal, and you won't see the messages. Or, you can use a workaround from here: https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/issues/497#issuecomment-323985143 to get rid of the messages.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing desktopify and screenFetch you can also consider the following projects:
7dtd-server - Provides a dedicated linux server for 7 Days to Die running inside a Docker container.
neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+
dnscrypt-server-docker - A Docker image for a non-censoring, non-logging, DNSSEC-capable, DNSCrypt-enabled DNS resolver
acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol
imagebuilder - velvet os - simple script framework to build ubuntu 22.04 lts jammy (in older versions also 20.04 lts focal) and debian 12 bookworm (in older versions also 11 bullseye) bootable usb / sd card images for some arm and intel devices - lots of prebuilt images as well
shell-color-scripts
openvpn-install - Set up your own OpenVPN server on Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS or Arch Linux.
starship - ☄🌌️ The minimal, blazing-fast, and infinitely customizable prompt for any shell!