Usability Tips & Techniques

I thought it might be helpful to document how I use Giocoso on a regular basis. Some of this may be useful to you, too!

I do not run Giocoso on my main, desktop PC. Instead, I have a Raspberry Pi 4 running completely silently in the drawer of a console table, to which I can connect via Ethernet network and I run Giocoso on that instead. However, I am sat at my desktop PC for long hours of the day: that's obviously the computer with which I want to control Giocoso. So how do I issue commands on my desktop PC and yet control Giocoso running in the console drawer? I wrote a separate article about how I achieve this using SSH and turn it into a button-clickable capability with a little bit of desktop environment manipulation.

This all simply means that I can operate Giocoso from my desktop PC, but everything I do is actually running on the music PC. I have remote control of what Giocoso does… but the program display is entirely as if I were running it locally.

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