Hello Seth, Thanks a lot for your reaction. I already digested these pages (as good as I could, I am an RF engineer, not a programmer). Unfortunately this does not help me much. The service file is at the correct location. I hope to get some clue where I am doing something wrong. Thanks again, regards, Harke
On Friday, 30 November 2018 12:18:26 UTC+1, Mala Dies wrote: > > Hello Again Harke, > > Seth here. You need to put your .service files in /etc/systemd/system/. I > am pretty sure. > > Seth > > On Monday, November 26, 2018 at 5:49:16 AM UTC-6, Harke Smits wrote: >> >> Hello learned group, >> >> I have a Python application that I'd like to see start up on boot. It >> uses Tkinter, so it needs the graphical environment. >> Running: python /home/debian/eme/myprog.py from the QTerminal command >> line works as expected. Not outside the LXQT environment, which is normal I >> think. >> I made a service file: myprog.service like this: >> [Unit] >> Description=to invoke myprog automatically on boot >> Requires=graphical.target >> [Service] >> Type=simple >> WorkingDirectory=/home/debian/eme/ >> ExecStart=python /home/debian/eme/myprog.py >> [Install] >> WantedBy=multi-user.target >> >> Service file is located at both: /etc/systemd/system/ and >> /lib/systemd/system/ as I am unsure where it actually belongs. Of course I >> already spend a lot of time at internet to find a solution. Only succes >> stories here.... >> I entered the following; >> sudo systemctl enable myprog.service: nothing special >> sudo systemctl start myprog.service: service is not loaded properly..... >> sudo systemctl status myprog.service: error (invalid argument), inactive >> (dead). >> >> Both from bash or within QTerminal: behaviour is the same. >> >> Please help me out what to do. >> Kind regards, >> Harke >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beagleboard/a80b6dbf-8740-4d42-94f6-c34714f99e05%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
