I have the image setup to autoexpand on first boot so if you apply custom setting it borks the file system
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Raspberry Pi updated a package name rpd-plym-splash and it updated the boot splash screen to stock with the date of the newest RPi build, to remediate this install clockworkpi-theme from the repo it will replace the boot splash with the ClockworkPi themed one.
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hmm… so to work around the issue of no hibernation/sleep I wanted to setup autostart of chromium [in fullscreen etc.]
honestly… I tried every single solution on the internet! It won’t work. In Biden’s voice: Come on, Linux!! 
this should do it, no? [because it doesn’t]
cat .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart 12:11
@lxpanel --profile LXDE-pi
@pcmanfm --desktop --profile LXDE-pi
@xscreensaver -no-splash
@/usr/bin/chromium-browser --start-fullscreen --start-maximized https://google.com```here’s my Netflix desktop entry, It starts up fullscreen but if there is another instance of chrome open then it’ll just join that window as a new tab not fullscreen
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Name=Netflix
Exec=chromium-browser --start-fullscreen http://netflix.com
Icon=/media/rex/250GB/Media/Images/Icons/Netflix.png
Categories=AudioVideo
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Does this updated image address the issue where videos won’t play in VLC (in the stock CM4 image) due to lack of video acceleration? Probably my single biggest annoyance with my stock setup.
Yes, video acceleration works.
Hey mate just wanted to say that what you’ve done here is incredible! It is literally what all of us have needed, and I’m sure many of us were capable of doing but too LAZY to do 
Is there somewhere we can donate for your time? Cheers, Julian.
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Thank you I appreciate it! It’s not necessary but if you want to, you can check out my linktree and there’s a link in there to.
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Hi, Bookworm image looks really nice on uConsole. The only problem - for some reason I can’t connect to the hidden WiFi
Did you try and connect with the GUI or another way. try raspi-config sudo raspi-config and try to set it in there.
I was trying to connect manually by editing wpa_supplicant.conf.
I will try rasp-config now
Actually I was able to use GUI WiFi “advanced” menu, connected to hidden WiFi
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Has anyone tried to compile RetroArch for uConsole Bookworm?
Yes, It compiles and works fine you just have to source the 64bit core on your own. RetroArch on the desktop is not as performant as it is with the RetroPie image running in the framebuffer. If you have a extra sd card i’d run the RetroPie image.
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Thanks!
I just installed it via sudo apt install retroarch - I don’t need high performance cores, just C64, GameBoy and maybe ZX Spectrum
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I noticed that the charging speed of batteries seems to be faster than in the original OS image. Is this so?
Yes the default charging speeds for the default image was considerably slower, but you could change it. I just have it set higher by default in my images.
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The speed is OK now.
Recently swapped from the stock image to this one on my uConsole and I love all the improvements / convenience features. The only issue is I have been harried with some pretty significant performance reductions that I’m not sure how to address. On the stock image I was pulling at least 30+ FPS in FTL, Into the Breach, and Hammerwatch, but with this image I am getting single digit FPS in hammerwatch with extreme (5-10 minute) loading times on FTL and Breach. Glitchy audio all around.
I am running these using Box64 but nothing else, other than manually extracting them and manually designating the x64 executable targets (which is what I did on the stock OS as well).
I did an installation using the raspberry pi SD card imager without custom options (as instructed) and am using the same brand / type of SD card as the original image, except this one is 64GB instead of 32GB. I’m wondering if anyone else has tried this games with that configuration on this OS? I suspect there’s something that needs to be installed or configured that would have been in the stock image that isn’t present on a fresh install of bookworm for uConsole.
I still have an SD Card for each one, so if there is some tool that could be used to compare them side by side, I can look into what the differences are!
edit: from what I have read so far the extreme loading times on FTL are graphics driver related (possibly) but it seems like few people on the internet have had a similar issue.