[beagleboard] Recommended way to start a graphical application at boot.

2015-12-30 Thread Jorge Garcia
Worked like a charm, thank you Peter -- 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] Recommended way to start a graphical application at boot.

2015-12-23 Thread Peter Gregory
I used LXDE and modify the autostart to operate in kiosk mode. Comment out the lxpanel and pcmanfm. create a shell script (startmyapp.sh) in the home directory that will set up any environment variables you need and launch your application: sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart And make

[beagleboard] Recommended way to start a graphical application at boot.

2015-12-22 Thread Jorge Garcia
Hello all, I have written a graphical application in python using tkinter. It runs perfectly on the BBB when I start it using a shell script and from the terminal. I have so far discovered that there are several ways to start a script at boot. I've tried .xinitrc, .config/autostart, crontab