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- [Linux]
- Kali-Pi - Sticky Finger's Kali Pi launcher
- KALI-PI Launcher
- Simple touch menu for Raspberry Pi projects using a 3.5" (480x320) or 2.8" (320x240) touch screen based on garthvh's original project.
- Thanks to JPearn for porting it to 2.8" and to ArmyGuy255a for cleaning up the code and improving the layout.
- It runs as a python script in the framebuffer without needing a desktop environment.
- This menu is the default launcher in Sticky Finger's Kali Pi: http://www.whitedome.com.au/kali-pi
- I was after an easy way to launch X Window on either the TFT screen or through HDMI without the need for massive reconfigurations. I came accross garthvh's project featured on Adafruit (https://blog.adafruit.com/2015/05/08/simple-pitft-touchpi-menu-system-piday-raspberrypi-raspberry_pi/) and used it as basis for this project.
- Install and use
- git clone https://github.com/re4son/Kali-Pi
- cd Kali-Pi
- sudo ./menu
- customise the file "menu" to match the path, define the screen size, etc.
- cusomise the scripts to suit your needs
- Important: Pygame is broken on on Debian Jessie. I'll explain below how to fix it.
- Layout
- Start Screen
- All functions are self explainatory. After exiting and application, the screen returns back to the last menu.
- The "Screen Off" function launches the python script "menu_screenoff.py", which uses the RPi.GPIO module to turn the screen off. You can turn it back on by pressing anywhere on the screen.
- Using the ">>>" button, we can scroll to the next screen, namely "menu_kali-2.py". The buttons allow us to stop and start services. The button changes to green when the service is running Press the button again to stop the service.
- menu-pin.py: The variable "KPPIN" in the file ~/menu can be set to "1" to enable PIN authentication to hide the menus from spying eyes
- Screensaver
- The screensaver can be enabled by setting the variable KPTIMEOUT in the file "./menu". Set it to the number of minutes after which the screensaver should kick in (very approximate value). Use 1 for 1 min, 0.5 for 30sec, etc. Touch anywhere on the screen to wake the system up. When KPPIN is set, the screen will return to the PIN menu after waking up.
- Run menu at startup
- The preferred method to run this script on startup is to add it to the end of ".profile": nano ~/home/.profile
- And add the following line to the bottom of the file: sudo /home/pi/Kali-Pi/menu
- Fix Pygame on Debian Jessie
- The package "libsdl1.2-15-10", which ships with Debian Jessie, breaks pygame. To make it work we have to revert back to "libsdl1.2-15-5" from Wheezy.
- The quickest way is to comment everything out in your /etc/apt/sources.list and temporarily add:
- deb http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian wheezy main contrib non-free
- Import the corresponding keys:
- deb http://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian wheezy main contrib non-free
- gpg -a --export 9165938D90FDDD2E | sudo apt-key add -
- Remove the offending package and replace it with the working one:
- sudo apt-get update
- sudo apt-get remove libsdl1.2debian python-pygame
- apt-get install libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-mixer1.2 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libsmpeg0 python-pygame
- sudo apt-mark hold libsdl1.2debian
- Restore "/etc/apt/sources.list" to it's original state.
- That's it. Pygame is fixed :-)
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