rdesktop startup script

[aaron9615]

First off let me begin by saying I am new to Linux. Currently I have rdesktop working with the raspberry PI, but what I would like to do is build at startup script to launch rdesktop upon boot. How can this be done?

[tonyhughes]

How do you run it now? Post your command.

Edit /home/pi/.bashrc ("nano /home/pi/.bashrc") and place your command in there (at the end)

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# # rdesktop section
# # All commands here will be run at login
#
# 
rdesktop <arguments>

[tonyhughes]

Take care when learning Linux (and many other OSes) that there is a huge difference between running something at boot, and running something at login.

My instructions will launch your app at login (which could easily be minutes/hours/days/weeks after boot).

To launch something at boot, you would use /etc/rc.local but that is not suitable for running your rdesktop scenario.

[aaron9615]

Currently I just run it through CLI, but I want to automate the process. I just looked for /home/pi/.bashrc and .bashrc does to exist. Do I need to create it?

[Pr0xyWash0r]

How do you run it now? Post your command.

Edit /home/pi/.bashrc ("nano /home/pi/.bashrc") and place your command in there (at the end)

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# # rdesktop section
# # All commands here will be run at login
#
# 
rdesktop <arguments>

this subject interests me too, doing what you said does indeed load it after login, but it seems i need it to load after "startx". When i run it as you said it runs from the console and gives me "Error: Failed to open display".