execute apps or script after Password entry

[pcote_pi]

Allo,

I have been searching this topic without success and many failed trials.

I boot raspbian in the terminal mode to be able to enter the username and password. After I enter the password I would like "startx" or any other apps or script to start automatically instead of getting the terminal prompt.

Is there any tutorial ti understand the boot sequence? Where is it located? How does it starts and end?

Thanks

Patrice

[DougieLawson]

If you want startx without a userid/password you can auto login the pi user and start the desktop. That's an option in sudo raspi-config.

[pcote_pi]

I still want to enter the username and password but after these steps, I would like startx or any executable to start right away automatically.

[DougieLawson]

To do that one way is to add it to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc but watch out that you may find those scripts get run whenever you open an LXTerminal on the GUI. You may need to do some special processing to avoid starting a task that's already running.

http://superuser.com/questions/49289/wh ... ashrc-file

[pcote_pi]

OK I'll take a look. I thought that if I could find the right autorun file I could replace the execution of the lx terminal by the execution of startx instead.

Feasible?

[rpdom]

You may need to do some special processing to avoid starting a task that's already running.

The very basic check would be

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if [ "$DISPLAY" = "" ]
then
  if ! pidof -s lxsession >/dev/null
  then
    exec startx
  fi
fi

But that only checks to see if you are in a console loginI, then checks to see if a GUI is already running.
(Not tested as I have no Pis with GUIs. I'm assuming lxsession is running for the desktop, other wise see what's there with ps -e)