Question about autostart program in LXDE

Hi everybody,

I wrote a python script using Tkinter and GPIO, so far it works fine.
I hope to start it in a more simple way: Just connect power, RaspberryPi will boot, start LXDE and run my python script automatically.

But I have no idea how to start python script with sudo(or run as root , because it uses GPIO)
I tried add them ~/.config/autostart/auto.desktop or .xsession but not working, maybe I mistake something..

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Shouldn't that be ~/.config/autostart/.desktop (not auto.desktop)? http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Autostart

Shouldn't that be ~/.config/autostart/.desktop (not auto.desktop)? http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Autostart

Thanks for reply, much appreciated


I had tried setting them in ~/.config/autostart/.desktop before, but still not working.
Maybe I am setting wrong command, here is my .desktop (autostart.desktop) file:

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[Desktop Entry]
Name=Timer
Comment=Start Timer script
Exec="gksu python /home/pi/timer.py" (I tried '/usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/python /home/py/timer.py' too, still the same)



Hi everybody,

I wrote a python script using Tkinter and GPIO, so far it works fine.
I hope to start it in a more simple way: Just connect power, RaspberryPi will boot, start LXDE and run my python script automatically.

But I have no idea how to start python script with sudo(or run as root , because it uses GPIO)
I tried add them ~/.config/autostart/auto.desktop or .xsession but not working, maybe I mistake something..

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hi
Did you ever get this to work - like you I'm trying to fire-up a python script that uses Tkinter and GPIO
so far not getting anywhere

I've tried Crontab - seems to have no effect
Any help would be appreciated

Hi everybody,

I wrote a python script using Tkinter and GPIO, so far it works fine.
I hope to start it in a more simple way: Just connect power, RaspberryPi will boot, start LXDE and run my python script automatically.

But I have no idea how to start python script with sudo(or run as root , because it uses GPIO)
I tried add them ~/.config/autostart/auto.desktop or .xsession but not working, maybe I mistake something..

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hi
Did you ever get this to work - like you I'm trying to fire-up a python script that uses Tkinter and GPIO
so far not getting anywhere

I've tried Crontab - seems to have no effect
Any help would be appreciated

Hi,
Finally I found the answer, use LXSession
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession#Automatically_start_some_applications_on_login

First, add

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#!/usr/bin/env python


in the first line of python script, and make the file executable with it, like

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chmod +x timer.py


Second, edit(or create) LXSession file in path
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
and add this line:

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/usr/bin/sudo ~/timer.py


if python script not start successfully, you can check the ~/.xsession-errors file

Below video link shows how it works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTRxifqIdQ

Hi everybody,

I wrote a python script using Tkinter and GPIO, so far it works fine.
I hope to start it in a more simple way: Just connect power, RaspberryPi will boot, start LXDE and run my python script automatically.

But I have no idea how to start python script with sudo(or run as root , because it uses GPIO)
I tried add them ~/.config/autostart/auto.desktop or .xsession but not working, maybe I mistake something..

Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

Hi
Did you ever get this to work - like you I'm trying to fire-up a python script that uses Tkinter and GPIO
so far not getting anywhere

I've tried Crontab - seems to have no effect
Any help would be appreciated

Hi,
Finally I found the answer, use LXSession
http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXSession#Automatically_start_some_applications_on_login

First, add

Code: Select all

#!/usr/bin/env python


in the first line of python script, and make the file executable with it, like

Code: Select all

chmod +x timer.py


Second, edit(or create) LXSession file in path
~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
and add this line:

Code: Select all

/usr/bin/sudo ~/timer.py


if python script not start successfully, you can check the ~/.xsession-errors file

Below video link shows how it works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTRxifqIdQ

Hi

thanks for the suggestions, I tried it today :-

firstly I could not find the appropiate folder "~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart", so after reviewing the link I put my autostart file in the /usr/share/lxsession and created a new folder LXDE
- no joy

The contents of my autostart file was
" sudo /home/pi/mcp3008/ python b1g.py"

Unfortunately this achieved nothing

Any ideas ?

Hi

thanks for the suggestions, I tried it today :-

firstly I could not find the appropiate folder "~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart", so after reviewing the link I put my autostart file in the /usr/share/lxsession and created a new folder LXDE
- no joy

The contents of my autostart file was
" sudo /home/pi/mcp3008/ python b1g.py"

Unfortunately this achieved nothing

Any ideas ?

Hi,
My environment is Raspbian “wheezy” (2012-12-16), not sure it will be some different or not

Here is my runtrought

0.write a simple python script(like 'boottest.py'). when execute it,it will generate a file 'working'. (Remember setting it executable and add #!/usr/bin/env python in file)

1.find ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
cd /home/pi
cd .config
cd lxsession
cd LXDE


2.
vi autostart

and add this line:

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/usr/bin/sudo ~/boottest.py


Reboot system.
If lxsession setting is correct, a file 'working' would appear in your home directory, if not appear, check the ~/.xsession-errors log file

3.replace boottest.py with what python script you want execute (like b1g.py) and check it working correctly or not.(In this step you have better test it with RaspberryPi connects monitor directly.)

1.find ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
cd /home/pi
cd .config
cd lxsession
cd LXDE

To make that more generic (= to work for other users than 'pi' as well):

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# instead of cd /home/pi
cd  ~


(~ is a 'shortcut' to the current user's home dir - usually '/home/<username>')

In addition, if some of those directories is missing, just create then before cd'ing into... f.eg. 'mkdir .config'

1.find ~/.config/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
cd /home/pi
cd .config
cd lxsession
cd LXDE

To make that more generic (= to work for other users than 'pi' as well):

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# instead of cd /home/pi
cd  ~




(~ is a 'shortcut' to the current user's home dir - usually '/home/<username>')

In addition, if some of those directories is missing, just create then before cd'ing into... f.eg. 'mkdir .config'

Cool managed to get it to work - thanks for your help

Will continue testing soon

Cheers