On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:49 PM, Kuba S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> The screen that shows up is without anything (status bar, clock, start > etc.). The only thing I can do is a right click to show context menu. There > I can choose from couple of commands like run terminal, switch monitors or > run web browser. And those works - I can run the terminal or view web pages. > However I can't get to e.g. file browser. > It's the same when I run x11vnc and tightvnc. > I've went through couple of examples from the web and proposition of solving > similar problems. Nothing worked. > > Could this be somehow connected to "headless" debian installation (the > monitor was never attached)? Almost certainly yes. X11 is just a display server: it's ready to display windows for X11 applications, but visible windows are only showing up because someone, somehow started running an X11 application. As you discovered, you can run those applications by hand (by the way, file browser may be provided by application 'nautilus', or several others---I am not sure which one is provided on your system). More importantly, there usually is an application that orchestrates windows on an X11 display---it's a combination of a X11 session manager and window manager. You can run it by hand just like a regular application---try one of twm, fvwm, xfwm, lwm (again, they may or may not be installed on your system, so you may need to use apt-get to install some). Most window managers will have a way to start applications by mousing/clicking around, either via clickable icons or menus. -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
