Volumio x86 + PeppyMeter

Hello all,
Apologies if this is not the good thread, this is my first post here, but i suppose this is the place to write.
After few reinstall of volumio 3 on an old dell studio 1555 laptop, i finally was able to get PeppyMeter partially work on the native screen of the laptop. My mistake was to have tried to follow several tutorials at a time, where i finally simply used the plugin files made available at the beginning of the thread.

Anyway, two issues remained:

  • whereas the vu meters correctly worked, i had no info about the track, the time position, the level and so on.
  • the peppyMeter won’t start automatically, i had to execute it from a ssh session aside.

I thought I may have had to install the touchdisplay plugin, which i first did from the github source, but it broke the X session: no more local GUI at all, only CLI.
I restarted from scratch (restore from the volumio options) and retried with the touchdisplay also made available at the beginning of the thread: same result.

So, now the story is written, i have 4 questions:

  • is peppyMeter supposed to work well on volumio 3 on x86 PC?
  • how can i manually restart the X session? (this is out of topic but would help) > found, openbox
  • what may i have missed in the install process to have both view meters and info display on the same screen?
  • is peppyMeter supposed to start automatically with the single plugin installation? (or do i still have to proceed with crontab? seems not according to the plugin description in the thread)

I thank you all in advance.
Best regards,
Ron.
PS: i’m currently restarting from scratch, i will probably find the right X startup command in the fresh install > found, openbox.