Hello,
How do I wake my monitor? I have a mouse, keyboard and monitor plugged directly into the Start9. I leave for a while and my monitor turns off [goes to sleep?]. Using the keyboard or mouse does not wake up the monitor. Touching the power button reboots the server. How can I step away from my computer, return, and pick up where I left off … like we are used to with a PC?
Thanks,
Seems I found something that works. CTRL F5 brings the screen back to life.
You are using your server in what we call “Kiosk Mode” with a monitor attached directly.
This is only recommended for initial setup or for some specific troubleshooting procedures.
The recommended way to use your StartOS server is to have it connected to your router over an ethernet cable and you access it over a browser from any other device on your network using the unique .local address or remotely using the .onion address.
These addresses can be found under System → Insights → About
Ah. Thank you for the response and info.
Since I struggle at sideloading apps on my start9. Never had any success yet. I cannot SEE them and can only interact with the Non-marketplace apps via Terminal from my local machine ON my Start9. Is there a way to get a monitor or screen connected to start9 running on a home server so I can have a desktop environment?
StartOS is a server OS. No desktop environment, or terminal emulator is included. You can connect a monitor mouse and keyboard, for access via kiosk mode. But you’re not going to see anything different than you do in your browser on another machine.
Ok, thanks! My issue is every single time I have to reset anything and restart the server or make too many changes all my settings for my trading bot and my price detection apps I have installed on the server have to be redone or restored. I don’t have too too much computer skill and using Terminal for everything is cumbersome.
WHEN CLEARNET btw? lol
Sounds like you’re doing quite a bit of hacking(clever playfulness) there! That’s great. But StartOS might not be the best tool for this job. StartOS is designed to be highly opinionated, and resilient, for the sake of simplicity. Debian might be a better choice for the flexibility you’re looking for.
Anything you want to happen at every startup, you can put into
/media/embassy/config/postinit.sh
If you want to make changes to the file system you can run:
/usr/lib/startos/scripts/chroot-and-upgrade
make your changes in the resulting shell, and then reboot. Depending on the changes you made they may be erased when you next upgrade StartOS though, so if you can make the postinit.sh that’s a more dependable and long-lasting approach. It runs at every boot.
I understand on a basic level. But I’m no coder I need Grok or an AI to write it all for me and interact with start9 via my terminal and then access the GUI locally in browser. But I have a terrible experience (days) trying to sideload an app called ChangeDetection.io. I gave up and have to use it via browser locally on port 5000. But nearly everytime I do anything on my start9 I lose everything I added to that app.
I would have opted to have an accessible OS like Debian or Ubuntu or whatever on my Beelink mini-computer. But at the time I only understood that to get StartOS on it that’s all I could do.