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General / ODROID XU4 - gui environment installed but Failed to open X11 display error

« on: October 27, 2021, 04:12:03 PM »

So how does one set up attract to run at startup without starting an entire desktop environment.  I have it installed but basically I want attract mode to come up at boot and not have to launch it from the desktop.

Right now I have changed my default systemctl target to multi-user so it boots to a shell login with no display manager. 

I manually compiled attract mode using the USE_GLES=1 flag and have not done the make install yet. I was just trying to get the executable to run and it's giving me this error:
Failed to open X11 display: make sure the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly.
Aborted

It would be really good if there were some documentation on this.  It seems like a basic thing that most people would like to know how to accomplish.

Thanks
Rich

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Scripting / What are the triggers for plugins?

« on: January 22, 2019, 02:18:22 PM »

I know you can have them activate based on a keypress through the controls custom1,2,3 etc but are there other ways to have them trigger? 

I'm thinking about writing a favorites plugin that does favorites a different way from how the base install does it.  Basically it would read the line from the romlist for the currently selected game and place it in a favorites romlist if it's being flagged as a favorite.  If it's being unflagged it would remove it from the favorites romlist.  Seems that would be a pretty simple plugin.

Thanks,
Rich

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General / Not understanding the design philosophy behind the favorites operation

« on: January 22, 2019, 08:24:03 AM »

I'm sure the devs thought through how favorites were to work before designing it, but from the way that it is acting it seems to me that you must have a separate favorites list for EACH system.  This does not make any sense to me.  The reason I say that is because as you go through different wheels and tag favorites, they create .tag files for that SYSTEM .. not a single file for all favorites like I would expect. 

The way I use attract mode is that I have romlists that have every possible game available in them and then use a filter for "Is Available=1" so that I don't have to constantly re-generate romlists when I add new games.  I simply add the roms and they show up.

So I took the same concept and created a single all encompassing romlist with all available roms and set a filter to favorite=1 (the default filter actually) and low and behold no games.  It will ONLY show favorites that are in that display's TAG file.  It makes no sense to me.  Shouldn't there be only 1 tag file generated for ALL favorites?

I don't get why it has to be so complicated.   Instead of using TAG files just have it add and remove entries from a favorites romlist - it could copy the entry that the person is on when they tag it for a favorite and add it to the favorites romlist.  Then no need to generate a list, no need to have tag files it would just work.

Maybe I'm oversimplifying but it seems logical to me and with the number of people posting about favorites this really needs to be made simpler.

Rich