Originally Posted by
Ouagadougou
Thank you Re4son, that got me much further down the line. Getting the WiFi working is key to getting the rest and that worked perfectly after your help.
Getting the desktop working isn't so straightforward tough. I followed everything in kalipi-config and also added lightdm as suggested by kalipi-config. I then got an error that there was no .xsession file in my home directory and no session managers or window managers. So I found some help on that and created an .xsession file with the following entries:
#!/bin/sh
exec gkrellm &
exec gnome-session
...and I installed the two packages gkrellm and gnome-session. That got me into a desktop but I have no menu, icons or terminal available - I just seem to have a kali linux desktop with cpu/disk/wlan info in the top left but I can't do anything. Any idea what that is? I suspect I have used the wrong session manager or something but I don't know how to change it or what to change it to (or even if that's the real problem).
Many thanks.
The easiest way to install a desktop is to use one of the meta packages that we have set up already. It will get you most of the way there typically. First off, I'm going to *highly* recommend *not* using gnome on a raspberrypi zero/zero w - there just isn't the RAM to handle the desktop and the performance will be utter garbage. I'd suggest something lightweight, like LXQt, LXDE, or XFCE. For lxde, or xfce, you can simply run
Code:
apt install kali-desktop-lxde
or
Code:
apt install kali-desktop-xfce
- for LXQt, we don't have our own meta package set up, but you can - despite their small size, typically performance and power usage differences, using kali on the pizero is the same as it would be on an installation of kali.