#Install pixel sorter install#
#Install pixel sorter update#
#Install pixel sorter code#

The first thing youвЂ™ll notice on rebooting is that the trail of cryptic boot messages has (mostly) gone, replaced by a splash screen. The latest set of changes are almost entirely to do with the appearance of the desktop there are some functional changes and a few new applications, about which more below, but this is mostly about making things look nicer. So PIXEL it is, which now officially stands for вЂњ Pi Improved Xwindows Environment, LightweightвЂќ. I also like crosswords and word games, and once it occurred to me that вЂњpixelвЂќ could be made up from the initials of words like Pi and Xwindows, the name stuck in my head and never quite went away.

It was a nice reminder of my days learning to program in BASIC on the Sinclair ZX81 nowadays, everything from your TV to your phone has pixels on it, but back then it was a uniquely вЂњcomputer-yвЂќ word and concept. One of the things I said (at least partly in jest) to my colleagues in those first few weeks was that IвЂ™d quite like to rename the desktop environment once it was a bit more Pi-specific, and I had the name вЂњpixelвЂќ in my mind about two weeks in. So today, weвЂ™re announcing the release of the PIXEL desktop, which will ship with the FoundationвЂ™s Raspbian image from now on. Stuff has slowly been becoming more and more like my original concept for the desktop with the latest changes, I think the desktop has reached the point where itвЂ™s a complete product in its own right and should have its own name. ItвЂ™s actually surprisingly easy to hack about with the LXDE desktop once you get your head around what all the bits do, and since then IвЂ™ve been slowly chipping away at the bits that I felt would most benefit from tweaking.

Well, that was two years ago, and IвЂ™ve learnt an awful lot since then. I clearly had a bit of a learning curve in front of meвЂ¦

But I had no idea where to start in terms of changingВ Raspbian. It was obvious that there was a lot that could be done in terms of making it a better experience for the user, and I spent many years working in user interface design in previous jobs. I only had the vaguest idea of what I was going to be doing, but on the first day Eben and I sat down and played with the Raspbian desktop for half an hour,В then he asked me вЂњdo you think you can make it better?вЂќД«ear in mind that at this point IвЂ™d barely ever used Linux or Xwindows, never mind made any changes to them, so when I answered вЂњhmmm вЂ“ I think soвЂќ, it was with rather more confidence than I actually felt. It was just over two years ago when I walked into Pi Towers for the first time. If you still experience problems with any of these after applying the fixes, please let us know in the comments below or on the forums. You will need to reboot for the fixes to take effect.

#Install pixel sorter update#

To get all the fixes, open a terminal and enter: sudo apt-get update

#Install pixel sorter install#

We recommend everyone install these fixes, whether you updated an existing image or you downloaded a new image. This has now been fixed with an updated Chromium build. This has been traced to a set of outdated Google API keys included in the version of the browser shipped in this image. Some users reported issues with syncing their Google accounts in Chromium.

#Install pixel sorter code#

This has been traced to a bug in the icon handling code for the menu which has now been fixed. Some users have reported problems with the main menu crashing since installing the PIXEL update.