On 07/09/2012 04:10, Norman Dunbar wrote:
Hi Bryan,
On 07/09/12 15:32, Bryan Horstmann wrote:
It would be nice to demonstrate a set-up
which just brought up QL quickly on switching on, as the QL did,
providing programming straight away, or the Xchange suite if needed. No
need for it to be a QL look-alike.
Login to your pi as the pi user, for example. Then create/edit a file
in your $HOME directory, named .xsession - leading dot and all lower
case.
Add the following:
#!/usr/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/qm &
Save and exit.
You can of course, replace qm with qx, qxx or qxxx to run Uqlx on
login, or indeed, any other GUI type program can be started in the
same file. Just add it's name into the file with a trailing ampersand
to make it a batch job.
Make it executable:
chmod 755 ./xsession
This causes Uqlx (the qm version) to be run whenever you connect with
a GUI session.
This works when you login as the pi user directly and the Pi is
connected to the HDMI/TV or when you login to the pi user via a VNC
session. (Which is what I tend to do.)
It only affects logins to a GUI and as the pi user. If you have more
users set up and you want them to run something on login to a GUI,
then instead of creating the same file in everyone's $HOME, create it
in /etc/X11/Xsession.d and call it startup instead.
Well, that's the theory at least, I haven't tried the latter version
myself.
HTH
Cheers,
Norm.
From Tony Firshman
... and that user name caused me a few hassles when I set up mine.
The first thing I did was get rid of that user, and make a 'tony'.
However a number of suggestions on setting up had 'pi' in the command
line and I didn't twig what that was first time!
Any instructions, especially command line quotes, should put <user> when
they have pi there!
I really must find time to play QL on my pi (8-)#
Tony.
Thanks for you advice Norman and Tony. I've made a note of it but I'm
afraid it is a bit "over my head"; I'm a simple user (although a
qualified engineer). My main machine is set up in a drop-down leaf
desk; twin floppies, Romdisk and Gold card with a Rainbow keyboard and
original QL mono monitor, with my start options page in Sbasic. We have
used a QL as a tool for years,( and my wife finds my laptop too
complicated), without going further than Superbasic, and using library
programmes plus some commercial. It has been a simple computer tool for
me and I don't often mess about in command line or the "code" (except
that Sbasic is command line I suppose). I have been shown how to hack
into Psion to customise printer options though. I did manage, under
instruction, to get PC XCHANGE to successfully run under Linux with
DOSbox. But I cannot find out how to get Ubuntu in full screen, and
haven't the time to work on it. So you perhaps understand that I just
want a substitute which "runs out of the box" as it were. I'll have to
see when my R-pi comes later next month.
Bryan H
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