Auto-starting a cpp program that uses ncurses?

[Silversonic]

My cpp program uses ncurses to display stuff in the center of the screen. Is it possible to make such a program auto-load on Pi start? Because I tried shoving

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home/pi/program

In to /etc/rc.local, but unfortunately when starting up my Pi the ncurses output doesn't act normal, instead my output is shifted to the bottom left a bit and this doesn't revert.

Also in /rc/etc.local is a script which changes the font output by the raspberry pi, but this is placed before my cpp program - so it shouldn't be affect it should it?

[DougieLawson]

You need to use the full path with a leading slash (/) in rc.local.

Getting input and output from a background program with no tty attached as stdin & stdout isn't trivial.

It may work with
/home/pi/program > /dev/tty1 &

But you may need to run it with screen.

[Douglas6]

Or you might try setting up auto-login, and adding your program to ~./bash.rc.

[Silversonic]

Thanks for the help guys. ~/.bashrc did the trick.


One last additional thing. Is it possible while SSHing to make a script to output to the Pi's connected screen (rather than outputting on to Putty?)

Edit: Yes, sorry. It was in dougie's post. /home/pi/program > /dev/tty1