Category: Raspberry Pi

Prevent screen blanking and disable screensaver on Raspbian

Published February 16, 2015 by Tobias Järvelöv

By default Raspbian has two things that make the screen blank: Screensaver and HDMI blanking. To remedy this we have to edit two files: LXDE’s autostart programs and kbd’s configuration.

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Silent boot on Raspberry Pi

Published February 8, 2015 by Tobias Järvelöv

With Raspbian the default configuration is to output the boot messages on the screen, or tty1 as it is also called. This is helpful when…

Unclutter – Remove cursor when idle

Published February 8, 2015 by Tobias Järvelöv

Recently i stumbled upon the need to hide the mouse cursor when inactive. Unclutter works by hiding the X11 cursor and should work for all linux distributions with X as display server.

Configuring VNC and TP-Link on Raspberry PI

Published February 7, 2015 by Tobias Järvelöv

After using dd to write Raspbian to a memory card I went on to configure the a VNC server to simplify remote configuration. Before doing…