I found an old Raspberry Pi 1 Model B kit from Make that I'd forgotten I had and am trying to get an operating system with a functional GUI onto it. The modern Pi OS gets stuck in some kind of boot or login loop, and the closest I've come so far is using the Pi Imager to write the Legacy OS to an SD card, unfortunately it boots up onto a desktop, flashes the taskbar several times, and then leaves me with nothing but a wastebasket icon (which does launch the file manager when I open it) I can use ctrl+alt+F1 and ctrl+alt+T to open terminals and I've tried updating and upgrading everything to no result. using ctrl+alt+tab I can manually run lxpanel, but the appearance is different from the task bar that flashes and disappears during/after boot (it's on the bottom instead of the top, only reaches a quarter of the way across the screen, only displays one of the windows that's open), and I can't use the start menu to shut down or reboot. I've seen a number of other posts about similar behavior, but they all involve multiple user accounts or messing with the operating system in ways I haven't, this is a fresh install and the default user I created when I wrote the SD card.
Statistics: Posted by astrocom — Sat May 04, 2024 3:11 am