How to make a Pi-Top more Raspbian
By R. S. Doiel, 2016-07-04
I have a first generation Pi-Top. I like the idea but found I didn’t use it much due to a preference for basic Raspbian. With the recent Pi-TopOS upgrades I realized getting back to basic Raspbian was relatively straight forward.
The recipe
- Make sure you’re running the latest Pi-TopOS based on Jessie
- Login into your Pi-Top normally
- From the Pi-Top dashboard select the “Desktop” icon
- When you see the familiar Raspbian desktop click on the following
things
- Click on the Raspberry Menu (upper left corner)
- Click on Preferences
- Click on Raspberry Pi Configuration
- I made the following changes to my System configuration
- Under Boot I selected “To CLI”
- I unchecked login as user “pi”
- Restart your Pi Top
- Click on Raspberry Menu in the upper left of the desktop
- Click on shutdown
- Select reboot
- When you restart you’ll see an old school console login, login as the pi user using your Pi-Top password
- Remove the following program use the apt command
- ceed-universe
- pt-dashboard
- pt-splashscreen
sudo apt purge ceed-universe pt-dashboard pt-splashscreen
Note: pi-battery, pt-hub-controller, pt-ipc, pt-speaker are hardware drivers specific to your Pi-Top so you probably want to keep them.