On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 12:47:59PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; Rock64, minimal stretch install. > > I'd like to auto-start xfce4 on a rock64. Its installed now but startx > can't be found. >
Same hardware and base system here.You might need to add a login manager - I'll check :) > Also, I'm getting warnings as I install stuff because the locale isn't > set, how do I fix that on the arm64 version of stretch? I see > an /etc/locale.gen but while running locale does setup some stuff, the > timezone isn't affected, nor the LANGUAGE setting. And the clock is off > 4 hours fast as its on UTC. The timezone file > contains "America/New_York" w/o the quotes. > Rock64 uses sudo rather than straight su sudo su - [Use the password you know] dpkg-reconfigure -plow tzdata dpkg-reconfigure -plow locales should do it. That asks the low level questions and allows you to check changes made. > I will make the comment that this rock64 is at least 20x faster than the > raspi-3b, plumb amazing. I've installed a bunch of stuff in the last 20 > minutes that the pi would be about a late dinner time this evening > doing. > > Thanks all. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
