This video could not have come at a more opportune time. I should be getting my PI in a couple of days, and I am very anxious to try all your tweaks. Thanks very much. Always look forward to your new videos.
You just blew me away mate, I learned more in this video in about 18 or so minutes. I have been messing around with the Raspberry-pi for at least 2 years. I have a 3b running my trains in dcc++, and one I bought from sprog. I use a sprog-pi one for most of my major programming of my train.. This video gave me more on how to setup the pi than you can imagine. Thank you for such an fabulous viseo. Blown away in N.Y.C
Hi Lee, nice video! When it comes to customizing the appearance of raspberry pi os, I usually like to make use of the awesome themes available to install. How I like to configure it: sudo apt install arc-theme papirus-icon-theme Then in the menu under preferences there is the Main Menu Editor. In that you can enable Theme and Appearance Settings to show under the preferences category in the menu. Lastly I select Arc-Dark under the Widget and Window Border tabs, and Papirus-Dark under the Icon Theme tab, then click apply. This way, the whole os looks a lot more modern and elegant :)
For Rpi4, there's nothing more beautiful and customizable than TwisterOS 1.3 which uses a 32 bit Raspi OS and it's very stable and come with tons of extra apps and goodies. raspbian-x.com/
@@martin6901 Hopefully not until they have all apps included in 32 bit version compiled, tested and bug-free for 64 bit. My Rpi4 8gb is my main PC which I use to flash images with RPI-imager and Etcher. I need working apps like VLC and Etcher in upcoming twister 64 bit version.
update for others following those instructions in the future: raspberry pi os works better with the latest version of papirus icon theme, which requires the repo to get added and installed from there. Easy instructions are on the papirus icon theme GitHub page.
One thing you didn't mention which I think is worth looking as is: Open the "Main Menu Editor" in the Preferences menu and go down to Preferences and tick "Themes and Appearance Settings" which will give you much more control over the look of the interface.
Excellent video - subscribed - wish I'd have watched this a few weeks ago. One thing I'm a bit surprised you didn't do was replace the default Raspbian File Manager with something like Thunar. It was in searching for how to do that (again - I did it before on a previous pi install) that I found this video. I especially appreciate being able to select using Thunar as root - speeds a lot of things up when doing initial set up.
Very useful tips there thank you. I've copied the wallpapers from my mint machine as I like those a lot. Mint wallpapers are also in /usr/share/backgrounds the path is identical
Very useful and should give folks a good start :-) Neofetch is pretty simple to configure and have 'auto' show up in terminal , just append neofetch to .bashrc file in your home folder.
Hi Lee, i did a search on google on "raspberry pi wallpaper". The ones i downloaded i put in the folder you mentioned in your video. (copy in terminal!) Grtz Johan
Thanks for this. Does anyone know why there is a "British English" option in the Language drop-down AND a "Use English language" radio button? Aren't they both the same thing?
This was a great video and resource for me as a new 4gb Rpi owner. I had to apply another HDMI code and now it boots up at least but now at 720 with no 1080 option. So I think that HDMI code you mention will make it start up . Im using VNC and I have yet to put it back on a monitor to see what it will do but I presume it will go 720 as well. So Im really looking forward to trying / installing a lot of these things. That temp setting is great, I had been checking my temp via terminal.
You can install gparted from the add/remove software. I think it appears as gnome partition editor. Gnome disks can also run on raspberry pi os, to install type in terminal sudo apt install gnome-disks
So first off, thankyou! for this content. got a pi 4 b for X-Mas and honestly i am no coder, but eager to learn some. however, when i copy the pikiss txt to the comand line it comes back as "command not found" what am i doing wrong?
@@leepspvideofirst off thankyou for responding! Im runing raspian, however, now that i did a vary little bit of research im comming up with, that is only a 32bit. now my concern is should i unistall the over clocking? do you have an vids that can make this more clear?
I just had an interesting learning experience. It's one in which I've probably over-tweaked a workaround for something quite simple. I encountered an error running PiKiss. An error dialog box opened referencing an *invalid argument associated with xterm*. After considerable head scratching, I'm now launching it via this command line in the Application menu: *sudo lxterminal -e /home/pi/piKiss/piKiss.sh*. Not at all elegant or proper, I'm sure, but it now runs. :) UPDATE: As it turns out, installing xterm is a more elegant solution, though I'm still giving myself points for thinking outside the box. Don't know why I didnt have xterm, but I didn't.
Thanx alot, very helpful :) 1 thing i might add: for my TV (and i asume there are others alike) 60 hertz does make the screen a bit flickery (is that the good word?) it's very subtle but it's noticable when i watch tv for a long time... When in Rp OS, you can bring down the hertz to 50 hertz, then the picture is much more pleasant to watch for me. So this is not for all of you, but maybe a little addition for some who have (like me) still have a Plasma TV or when the picture doesnt seem to look very pleasant.
nano .bashrc then add to the bottom if [ -f /usr/bin/neofetch]; then neofetch; fi and then save with CTRL-X and then it will run everytime you run the command line
Compton compositor is really useful to get rid of tearing on the entire system (TH-cam, VLC etc.). Compton.conf must be edited to add 'opengl-swc' to the line 'vsync', autostart and voila...
Had a few OS installs lately that don’t fit my Samsung tv screen very well. Usually they default to 1080 and when I go to switch to 1920 the tool bar is half cut off on the bottom (TwisterOS for example). Is there a script or other method to get screen fit?
This video is 2 years old. It may hav3 changed. My os of choice is KDE plasma in 64 bit Raspberry Pi os. It’s available in this playlist. See the latest videos KDE Plasma, 64bit Raspberry Pi OS. custom build downloads available. th-cam.com/play/PLMJAjiTgBtFlz0j9xdQwNmLgqmaBscT1T.html
left handed mouse users are still discirminated, a simple yes/no question after first boot of gui is all it needs ! or make left/right mousebuttons behave identically until a real config choice is made, equal rights ! i add midnight commander (has built-in editor mcedit, no nano), putty, terminator, filezilla
Hey, very good video!!! You shouldn’t go anywhere, everything’s here. Just one question, is it possible to install EmulationStation running on RPi OS? Or you need to install as a default being part of RetroPie? Viceversa is possible to run desktop environment from RetroPie, but I’m not sure if other option is possible. Thanks for your comments
Yes, you don't have to boot into the RetroPie (OS) image, you can install EmulationStation on the Raspberry Pi OS and boot it from the GUI or CLI (recommended after changing the tty).
after installing chromium media with curl from VPetkov.net, when i go full screen with youtube, my screen gets all scramble ! how that come ? when i click right button, picture comes back but freeze as stop playing !!!! finally i have to uninstall chromium and reinstall it to get it right !!!
Very Nice video. I had problems running chromium media edition in Full screen, Netflix and TH-cam, after the last update... This metod of running drm content, you showed in video, don't work more!!! Did you have any problem like this? Greetins from Brazil! PS: I'm sorry for my english.
Hi there firstly great Videos i am a new Subscriber and the Pis here in Australia are Double the amount eg a Pi 4b is $109 AUD the Pi 4 8Gig is $189 Aud the Pi $400 Kit was $196 Aud The Pi Mouse and Keyboard $50 for both, and currently the Pi 3b is $89, by besisdes that my question is if you select the Pi imager and take out the current SD card to put in another SD to copy to will the system just crash? What will run off if ive taken the SD cut out to copy an image? it only has one SD mount right or did i miss a step? I dont want to try it unless i get an answer and ruin it and sorry if this is a really stupid question i am a noob to this whole thing. But cheers in advance from Down Under Australia
I don’t really understand the question. If you remove the sd card that the operating system is running from your Pi will crash. You can run an operating system from a usb device and use the sd card reader for copying and creating images.
I regularly tinker with my Pi's but did not realise half the things you have shown today.
Thanks!
I know right...I am very new to it but this was super helpful.
Easily the best video I've seen for personalising the Raspberry Pi, it now feels more my computer rather than generic. Thank you.
I've been looking for a video like this for my new pi 4 but with no avail. Thanks for this vid... will definitely apply what you've said to my pi!
This video could not have come at a more opportune time. I should be getting my PI in a couple of days, and I am very anxious to try all your tweaks. Thanks very much. Always look forward to your new videos.
You just blew me away mate, I learned more in this video in about 18 or so minutes. I have been messing around with the Raspberry-pi for at least 2 years. I have a 3b running my trains in dcc++, and one I bought from sprog.
I use a sprog-pi one for most of my major programming of my train..
This video gave me more on how to setup the pi than you can imagine. Thank you for such an fabulous viseo. Blown away in N.Y.C
@@alevans51 Nice to see more train oeople using pi's..
Thank u sm. Just the video I've been searching TH-cam for. Keep doing great things :)
Hi Lee, nice video!
When it comes to customizing the appearance of raspberry pi os, I usually like to make use of the awesome themes available to install. How I like to configure it:
sudo apt install arc-theme papirus-icon-theme
Then in the menu under preferences there is the Main Menu Editor. In that you can enable Theme and Appearance Settings to show under the preferences category in the menu.
Lastly I select Arc-Dark under the Widget and Window Border tabs, and Papirus-Dark under the Icon Theme tab, then click apply.
This way, the whole os looks a lot more modern and elegant :)
For Rpi4, there's nothing more beautiful and customizable than TwisterOS 1.3 which uses a 32 bit Raspi OS and it's very stable and come with tons of extra apps and goodies.
raspbian-x.com/
@@josephtremblant2173 Hopefully it (and Riley's suggestion) will be available in 64 bit soon too.
@@martin6901 Hopefully not until they have all apps included in 32 bit version compiled, tested and bug-free for 64 bit. My Rpi4 8gb is my main PC which I use to flash images with RPI-imager and Etcher. I need working apps like VLC and Etcher in upcoming twister 64 bit version.
update for others following those instructions in the future: raspberry pi os works better with the latest version of papirus icon theme, which requires the repo to get added and installed from there. Easy instructions are on the papirus icon theme GitHub page.
One thing you didn't mention which I think is worth looking as is: Open the "Main Menu Editor" in the Preferences menu and go down to Preferences and tick "Themes and Appearance Settings" which will give you much more control over the look of the interface.
A lot of info! This earned my subscription and looking forward to reviewing your other videos 👍
Excellent video - subscribed - wish I'd have watched this a few weeks ago. One thing I'm a bit surprised you didn't do was replace the default Raspbian File Manager with something like Thunar. It was in searching for how to do that (again - I did it before on a previous pi install) that I found this video. I especially appreciate being able to select using Thunar as root - speeds a lot of things up when doing initial set up.
Very useful tips there thank you. I've copied the wallpapers from my mint machine as I like those a lot. Mint wallpapers are also in /usr/share/backgrounds the path is identical
Very useful and should give folks a good start :-)
Neofetch is pretty simple to configure and have 'auto' show up in terminal , just append neofetch to .bashrc file in your home folder.
Hi Lee, i did a search on google on "raspberry pi wallpaper". The ones i downloaded i put in the folder you mentioned in your video. (copy in terminal!)
Grtz Johan
Again some usefull tips - thx.
I learn a lot of tips with your videos. Thanks!
As always nice video and very informative content 👌
Thanks for this. Does anyone know why there is a "British English" option in the Language drop-down AND a "Use English language" radio button? Aren't they both the same thing?
Neofetch is a cool looking terminal box, i pretty much do a similar setup to you do, but i go Aurora
This was a great video and resource for me as a new 4gb Rpi owner.
I had to apply another HDMI code and now it boots up at least but now at 720 with no 1080 option. So I think that HDMI code you mention will make it start up .
Im using VNC and I have yet to put it back on a monitor to see what it will do but I presume it will go 720 as well.
So Im really looking forward to trying / installing a lot of these things. That temp setting is great, I had been checking my temp via terminal.
Very nice video. Really it is very helpful for new Raspbian.
You can install gparted from the add/remove software.
I think it appears as gnome partition editor.
Gnome disks can also run on raspberry pi os, to install type in terminal sudo apt install gnome-disks
You had any problems with TH-cam playback using the 5.4 kernel?
I didn't like it, I loved it. ❤️
Absolutely great video. Kudos!
So first off, thankyou! for this content. got a pi 4 b for X-Mas and honestly i am no coder, but eager to learn some. however, when i copy the pikiss txt to the comand line it comes back as "command not found" what am i doing wrong?
Are you running 32bit Raspberry Pi OS?
@@leepspvideofirst off thankyou for responding! Im runing raspian, however, now that i did a vary little bit of research im comming up with, that is only a 32bit. now my concern is should i unistall the over clocking? do you have an vids that can make this more clear?
Thank you sir for making this video always love and respect for you sir
After all those awesome customizations, you can write it to your own image file on your NAS with pi-safe so you can restore it later.
I just had an interesting learning experience. It's one in which I've probably over-tweaked a workaround for something quite simple. I encountered an error running PiKiss. An error dialog box opened referencing an *invalid argument associated with xterm*. After considerable head scratching, I'm now launching it via this command line in the Application menu: *sudo lxterminal -e /home/pi/piKiss/piKiss.sh*. Not at all elegant or proper, I'm sure, but it now runs. :)
UPDATE: As it turns out, installing xterm is a more elegant solution, though I'm still giving myself points for thinking outside the box. Don't know why I didnt have xterm, but I didn't.
Thanx alot, very helpful :) 1 thing i might add: for my TV (and i asume there are others alike) 60 hertz does make the screen a bit flickery (is that the good word?) it's very subtle but it's noticable when i watch tv for a long time... When in Rp OS, you can bring down the hertz to 50 hertz, then the picture is much more pleasant to watch for me. So this is not for all of you, but maybe a little addition for some who have (like me) still have a Plasma TV or when the picture doesnt seem to look very pleasant.
CommanderPi is also a handy tool to overlock the RBP.
Some tweaks and tips are not working with the 64bit beta. Hope the solutions will be working with the 64bit in future.
Hi, thank you. Great tips and tricks 👍 Can I have the link to the Config.txt options you mentioned in the video?
They are under Show More
@@AndrewAHayes I'm sorry, but I don't see a link to that website with all the configuration options that can be added to config.txt
I found it in the Googles: elinux.org/RPiconfig
nano .bashrc then add to the bottom if [ -f /usr/bin/neofetch]; then neofetch; fi and then save with CTRL-X and then it will run everytime you run the command line
Compton compositor is really useful to get rid of tearing on the entire system (TH-cam, VLC etc.). Compton.conf must be edited to add 'opengl-swc' to the line 'vsync', autostart and voila...
Thank you so much for this video
Hey, it got changed since the bullseye update, please make an updated version.
Thanks. Great video. I get an error when installing piKiss "fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly"
It works with twister os and Raspberry Pi OS 32bit. Are you using a different OS?
@@leepspvideo Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit buster. It happens when it tries to clone the city repo. I have downloaded it manually and can run it now :-)
Had a few OS installs lately that don’t fit my Samsung tv screen very well. Usually they default to 1080 and when I go to switch to 1920 the tool bar is half cut off on the bottom (TwisterOS for example). Is there a script or other method to get screen fit?
H264ify can give unbearable error alerts 'aw snap...' I suggest to uninstall it.
Thanks for sharing !
Great presentation! Could you please explain how to install a screen saver & Brave Browser on Raspberry Pi 4 Raspbian OS
Thanks for the video ,network option is gone on this build
Thanks so much for this!
6:02 wait, you can install kde on pi os, look at the left
I am using Raspberry Pi 4 B (64bit), and I can not find the "Task Bar (Window List) Settings" settings.
This video is 2 years old. It may hav3 changed.
My os of choice is KDE plasma in 64 bit Raspberry Pi os. It’s available in this playlist. See the latest videos
KDE Plasma, 64bit Raspberry Pi OS. custom build downloads available.
th-cam.com/play/PLMJAjiTgBtFlz0j9xdQwNmLgqmaBscT1T.html
Great video. Is there a way to snap or arrange windows like on gnome, mate, xfce desktops?
have you found out yet?
left handed mouse users are still discirminated, a simple yes/no question after first boot of gui is all it needs !
or make left/right mousebuttons behave identically until a real config choice is made, equal rights !
i add midnight commander (has built-in editor mcedit, no nano), putty, terminator, filezilla
Trying to install PiKISS in Raspberry Desktop gives nothing but an error message: "Sorry. PiKISS is only for Raspberry Pi boards."
Hey, very good video!!! You shouldn’t go anywhere, everything’s here. Just one question, is it possible to install EmulationStation running on RPi OS? Or you need to install as a default being part of RetroPie? Viceversa is possible to run desktop environment from RetroPie, but I’m not sure if other option is possible. Thanks for your comments
Yes, you don't have to boot into the RetroPie (OS) image, you can install EmulationStation on the Raspberry Pi OS and boot it from the GUI or CLI (recommended after changing the tty).
after installing chromium media with curl from VPetkov.net, when i go full screen with youtube, my screen gets all scramble !
how that come ? when i click right button, picture comes back but freeze as stop playing !!!!
finally i have to uninstall chromium and reinstall it to get it right !!!
Try
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Very Nice video.
I had problems running chromium media edition in Full screen, Netflix and TH-cam, after the last update... This metod of running drm content, you showed in video, don't work more!!! Did you have any problem like this?
Greetins from Brazil!
PS: I'm sorry for my english.
Bit of info and testing in tomorrow’s video. 👍🏻
@@leepspvideo Thanks a lot!!!
Hi there firstly great Videos i am a new Subscriber and the Pis here in Australia are Double the amount eg a Pi 4b is $109 AUD the Pi 4 8Gig is $189 Aud the Pi $400 Kit was $196 Aud The Pi Mouse and Keyboard $50 for both, and currently the Pi 3b is $89, by besisdes that my question is if you select the Pi imager and take out the current SD card to put in another SD to copy to will the system just crash? What will run off if ive taken the SD cut out to copy an image? it only has one SD mount right or did i miss a step? I dont want to try it unless i get an answer and ruin it and sorry if this is a really stupid question i am a noob to this whole thing. But cheers in advance from Down Under Australia
I don’t really understand the question. If you remove the sd card that the operating system is running from your Pi will crash. You can run an operating system from a usb device and use the sd card reader for copying and creating images.
can install appimages on pi?
I haven’t tried
Wanted to said... fcite, theme configuration, and chromium's dark mode.
love u dude
Do you have a flicker problem on TV? Someone?
Not on mine.
@@leepspvideo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@leepspvideo I'm a newbee... I'll find my way in. For, lotsa headache... And coffee.... hahaha!
Run lxappearance for more customization
Id use gnome-disk-utility as a partitioner
And you can download a magnifier from recommended software that appears on the panel so you dont have to zook in the video with editing
Also what video editor do you use?
@@fred-youtube LumaFusion on 10.5” iPad Pro
This was a while ago
LumaFusion 2.0. EDITING 6 4K clips
th-cam.com/video/7Uy2ljTkLM4/w-d-xo.html
Hiiii
sudo lxappearance
7:37
MINECRAFT PLS......:(
Absolutely great video. Kudos!