Standing desk (6)
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Next iteration  has been done: the  Raspberry Pi Model B  (the original
Pi, not the 2, 3 or 4) is back!

Well, I made another  attempt to use the ODROID XU-4  first. It has the
RTC battery now,  I checked all connectors (everything seemed  to be OK
on the  board) and carefully connected  all things: the HDMI,  the USB,
the power cable. And result was the  same at it was previously: a green
screen (it seems that black and  green are swapped). The same cable and
the same HDMI-DVI adapter worked at  home with almost the same LCD (the
ViewSonic  vp171b vs  the vp171s  -  the "b"  and "s"  only differs  in
plastic  frame colors).  And it  worked well  with my  home EIZO.  So I
decided to stop these vain attempts. I will try to find a different use
for it.

Thus the Pi is back. The device  uses the Rapsbian Linux with the LXDE.
It is  much slower  and has problems  with WiFi (I'm  going to  set the
wpa_supplicant.conf to work with the EDUROAM - hopefully it will be the
solution). At  least I  have installed  some important  software pieces
(still have no LaTeX  here but the gcc, the git,  the XFig, the Gnuplot
and the GNU Octave are installed and working - and the JPilot, too!).

I have found that on this setup is is more comfortable to use the XTerm
at full screen (Alt+F11  in the XDE) with the tmux.  It has nicer fonts
(both size and shape - they are  the default X11 ones, by the way) than
the  default (Gtk+-based?)  terminal  can use.  So for  now  I use  the
XTerm+tmux combination to run the Vim, the Octave and so.

There is  the Wolfram's  Mathematica pre-installed  in the  Raspbian. I
should give it a look - I never had an opportunity to use it.

And I'm going to try the FVWM here.  It may by lighter and it should be
much more flexible than the default LXDE.