The latest 4GB Debian wheezy image currently advertised on the website 
(http://beagleboard.org/latest-images) has an issue with not properly 
launching the LXDE X11 desktop:
http://builds.beagleboard.org/images/master/08132bf0d0cb284d1148c5d329fe3c8e1aaee44d/bone-debian-7.9-lxde-4gb-armhf-2015-11-12-4gb.img.xz

Specifically, lxpanel doesn't start automatically, and so you don't get the 
task bar, widgets, desktops, etc that come with it launching. The File 
Manager doesn't launch either in the intended way, which means that no 
desktop wallpaper image will be set.

The reason is that the file /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart erroneously 
can be read only by root. This can be fixed easily (once you know that this 
is the problem, which took be countless hours and running down rabbit holes 
:-)

  $ sudo chmod a+r /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart

I can't say anything about other images. They may or may not have the same 
issue, but if they do, the same fix will in all likelihood apply.

Presumably this will be correct in future images because the underlying bug 
has already been fixed thanks to Robert [1].

  -hilmar

[1] https://github.com/RobertCNelson/omap-image-builder/issues/68

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