{"id":1391,"date":"2021-06-04T13:16:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T12:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2025-06-18T09:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:30:09","slug":"auto-start-a-program-on-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/?p=1391","title":{"rendered":"auto-start a program on boot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

!!!!!!!!!!!!!*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW TECHNIQUE FOR NEWER VERSIONS OF OS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

!!!!!!!!!!!!!*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

for new versions of the os follow these instructions .Autostart works different on the newer releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

this is for Bookworm on a RPi5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open the File Manager and select View -> Show Hidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should see a .config folder. Change to that folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right click on the list of files and select “New Folder”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter “autostart” as the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you should have a “.\/.config\/autostart” folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Create a file named “test.desktop” in the “.\/.config\/autostart” folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In it type……<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type=Application<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Name=Chromium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exec=chromium<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terminal=false “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Set the file permissions on test.desktop file as “executable by anyone”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reboot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edit: You can move or copy a desktop file from your \/Desktop folder,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it runs there when you double click it, it will autostart in the “.\/.config\/autostart” folder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BELOW IS THE OLD WAY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

open a\u00a0text document.<\/span><\/p>\n

save it , onto the desktop as<\/span><\/p>\n

startup.sh<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Untitledthen open terminal and type in (really important this)<\/span><\/p>\n

sudo chmod 755 \/home\/pi\/Desktop\/startup.sh<\/span><\/p>\n

sudo nano \/etc\/xdg\/lxsession\/LXDE-pi\/autostart<\/span><\/p>\n

then right at the bottom add<\/p>\n

@\/home\/pi\/Desktop\/startup.sh<\/p>\n

then exit and save (ctlt x , y , return)<\/p>\n

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this will now open this file every time the computers boots up.<\/p>\n

to get it to do something open startup.sh in text editor and type<\/p>\n

sleep 2<\/p>\n

pd \/home\/pi\/Desktop\/pdtest.pd<\/p>\n

then save it<\/p>\n

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now if we test this by opening this file by double clicking then choosing Execute<\/p>\n

it waits for 2 seconds, then opens Pd with the patch pdtest.pd, which is found at\u00a0\/home\/pi\/Desktop\/pdtest.pd<\/p>\n

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if we don’t want this to happen every time the pi boots up, rename the startip.sh file to something else, this file can also be modified to open any application or process .<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

!!!!!!!!!!!!!*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW TECHNIQUE FOR NEWER VERSIONS OF OS !!!!!!!!!!!!!*******************************!!!!!!!!!!!!! for new versions of the os follow these instructions .Autostart works different on the newer releases. this is for Bookworm on a RPi5. Open the File Manager and select View -> Show Hidden. You should see a .config folder. Change to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1392,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pd-on-a-pi","column","fourcol","has-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewolden.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}