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And we're making progress.

LemonPOS live and running on RaspberryPi

Some issues to address;

If you're stuck wondering how to make your Raspberrypi more Touschreen friendly and do things like change the width of your scroll bar, look no further than

/usr/share/themes

Simply copy/paste your favorite theme to a folder with the desired name of your new theme, and edit as you please.

The file structure should look like this

/usr/share/themes/myTheme/openbox-3/themerc /usr/share/themes/myTheme/gtk-2.0/gtkrc

If these files don't exist, feel free to create them and copy/paste an example file from another theme.

To make the changes you have made take effect, go to 

Menu > Preferences > Customise Look and Feel

Or

Menu > Preferences > Openbox Configuration Manager

And switch back and forwards between your theme and another one.

Should also note that this step also takes a some time.

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda1

Good book, worth having as a reference.

Also gave me something to do while I waited for the filesystem to copy from SD to USB via the command;

I've been investigating the few Point of Sale systems on offer for Linux. 

USB Credit Card Reader from dealsextreme. While I wouldn't use this in a production Point of Sale system, it does make a cheap and expendable edition to my Point of Sale experimental toolkit.

Has 4 on/off jumpers on the back that help you customise the delimiters. The settings in the photo place a /n suffix delimiter.

FYI, I don't read mandarin but my other half does, so she makes life a bit easier.

Digitech 10 port USB hub

A quick note to let you all know that I received the replacement Pi within a matter of one day of reporting the faulty one.

Welcome to the Pi family.

Once you plug in the power adapter as your last step, the PI should start to boot. You will need a keyboard at the beginning as the touchscreen does not function from shell. Type raspi-config on boot, and set your raspberrypi to boot to desktop in the config options.

You may also want to install matchbox-desktop via 

sudo apt-get install matchbox-desktop

Add matchbox-desktop to the apps in your panel and you are good to go!

May sound a bit dumb, but this is the part I struggled with the most. This is the plug on the back of the touchscreen.

As promised, here are some pictures of the 10" Touchscreen and LVDS converter purchased from Chalkboard Electronics.

Its worthwhile mentioning that these pictures are lacking the power adapter, which I purchased seperatly. This device requires a 5V/3A power adapter with a 2.5mm DC by OD 5.5mm plug. I purchased a Powertech PLUS Switchmode Regulated Plugpack (MP-3480) from Jaycar that comes with 7 different plugs that can be switched over at any time for any future projects.

Also interesting to note that the cable does not come with a mini USB board as per the instructions provided by Chalbve Board Electronics here. I was a bit worried but soon realised that they have since added an attached the USB plug and concealed the board on newer models.