sounds good enough to try this out myself! 
oh I love this uconsole + bookworm to manage my raspberries!
I enabled now screenblanking… it didnt ask when it"s triggered tho… how doI use swayidle?
edit: the blanking works fine… will save a ton of battery in the future
this might be something for a new thread… but are u using any cool TUIs? I just compiled spotify player and btop++
This was super slick to install and get up and running, thank you for building this and sharing with the community Rex!
Thank you, I appreciate it! I’m glad I could help the community.
can you explain me maybe how to setup the desktop environment? I wanna have the same for my rpi 5… which has some ugly environment right now when I type startx so I’ll stay in the 8 color console … too ugly (tried to get kmscon (even kitty) running but without success).
But now that I see how lovely lx looks …
can I copy it (at least the configs) simply over maybe? got bookworm 6.1.0-rpi8-rpi-2710 running on there.
copying the dotfiles should work. I’ve got a Image that’s identical to the one I made for our devices but without the drivers (except the DevTerms thermal printer software) but will work for the rpi5. I can upload it if you’d like. It’s running the stock rpi kernel.
oh, it was a long journey to set up this pi 5 … I had to compile a ton of stuff to get it all updating the firmwares (nvme etc.) and well … nothing is available / working for arm haha … learned a ton about linux on the way.
So … since it’s a working system (with lots of audio stuff in jack2 etc.) I think I’ll pass 
or are there any big advantages in the newer kernels? It’s running perfectly more or less atm…
aight thanks! will try it now – perfect work for procastination 
copying the dotfiles should work and would be easier then doing all that work over again. that image has the stock rpi kernel I don’t think you’ll get that much of an improvement to bother and you can update to kernel 6.6.31 on the stock rpi kernel through the official repo.
okay… I think it’s already lxde running.
copying ~/.config/lxsession and lxterminal over didn’t give me any changes. What configs would I want to copy over exactly?
Copy /var/lib/lightdm/.config from the my distro to your rpi5 and make sure the owner stays lightdm then your lockscreen will be in darkmode.
Also they are the clean files that you would need to restore the stock look I did to the user.
hmm… so I tar’ed that folder and copied to the other pi (also to the same location). No change… still this super wannabe fancy desktop environment booting in ultra 4k
could you explain it like I’m 5 maybe?
putting it in the lightdm location with the correct owner should only change the lockscreen to darkmode. also use those files in your home dir to make the same changes on the desktop. or get the files from /etc/skel in my image and put them in your home dir.
I did… nothing changes…
owner ship is set correctly? in your home folder.
seems like it… hmm… weird
I use zram. I haven’t done any measurements to see what performance difference it makes, but same as you, I was concerned about SD card writes. Surely writing application memory to the SD card shortens its life.
I followed some random guide, which used GitHub - foundObjects/zram-swap: A simple zram swap service for modern systemd Linux
zram-generator looks pretty cool. If I get a chance I’d like to try it out.
We could move this zram chat to a new topic, and in fact, that might be a good idea anyway because it would make the information easier to find. Currently there are a few off-topic mentions of zram scattered around other threads.
Is there a limitation on card storage?
I tried a 64G card, it’s OK, but a 256G card can’t start up.
How to solve this?
did you apply custom settings in rpi imager when you flashed the image?
