Auto Run an Application on Raspberry Pi Raspbian Desktop

[@Lann91]

Dude ive been searching a way to autorun kodi, found shitload of trash tutorials and whatnot, 3 pages of codes. And then this video, shows it in 2 minutes. Thank you.

[@lapachon1985]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! it works so great, i'm looking hours for a solution and you have it in this short video!

[@tortigos74]

How any other very complicated solutions are not working and this simple solution is working perfectly ? thank you !

[@Brand0n555]

Thank you so much. No other method I found was working and yours did. I spent 3 hours trying to figure this out

[@wei48221]

Very helpful. Thank you. Do you happen to know how to make the auto-launch application appears at a specific location on the desktop?

[@grant1984]

Thank you. Tried several other ways and this worked right away.

[@ptsagkarakis]

I'm saved!!! simple in 2 mins!!!! I used it to autorun Supercollider not to run a specific file. Then I used the startup file within SC to run my file.

[@Rickmakes]

Glad to help!

[@JohnHanna1]

Thank you so much for this, Ive been beating my head against my keyboard for hours. I had used mirage to automatically open an fullscreen image on boot for video menuboards at a client's restaurant 3 years ago. One of the RPis sd card became corrupted and I had to reflash it. I had forgotten that I modified the auto-run file and that was bypassing the boot config.txt file.

[@JohnHanna1]

I'm NOT that well versed with RPi to begin with, I am computer savvy but can find may way around with some help from Google lol

[@horizon42q]

Excellent, very clear instructions

[@izdiharamiro1462]

thank you rick, im actually stuck at how to revert back to normal after turning on without autostart to any website, after listening carefully to your video, i manage to get the idea to solve my problem. Thank you very muchhhh 👏 maybe this will help for anyone wondering this one for wide setting: /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart this one for specific user/per user basis: .config/lxsession/LXDE-pi/autostart

[@arniep740]

Thanks for this video. What syntax would I need if I want a terminal window to open and run a python script at bootup?

[@_ilincic]

you're a life savior

[@manson2000hk]

Thanks for the video! I am also working for similar task. The raspberry pi 4 is connecting 2 monitor, I need to auot run 2 pdf files full screen, let say a.pdf on 1st monitor and b.pdf on 2nd monitor, when the pi turned on. (It's for instruction purpose in a produciton line, the pdf show the production process). I have tried the similar way like your video, but I only can open 1 pdf file in one monitor. How can it auto run 2 pdf file on both monitors wth full screen for every startup? (I am using qpdfviewer)

[@azazelek111]

Good. Is it possible to delay the startup of the program? For example 20sec after the system wakes up

[@swalkerjr]

Hi, how can i start the browser window in max mode, and lock the screen to only the browser. Thanks

[@balkankhilmiassakandari6950]

thank you so much, been looking for this specific task.

[@Jeva89]

thank you, how would i get web page to start in full screen

[@fallen4life080]

Hi, the lxsession/LDXE-pi/autostart directoy doesn't exist for me. i get an error

[@neilshrinath6119]

What desktop environment do you have?

[@floydhayes]

I would love to auto start LibreWriter - would this be the same method? thank you!

[@Rickmakes]

You should be able to do that. I think the command is "soffice --writer"

[@MrWallyGattor]

Awesome, thank you i tried so many other tutorials & they all fail

[@Rickmakes]

That's great to hear! Thank you.

[@eyez2159]

Ty very useful, is there a way to start the program minimized ?

[@isirakatakumburs4880]

Is there any way to start the chromium brower in full screen mode at the startup?

[@blue_water3888]

I dont know i need also full scren at the start F11

[@isirakatakumburs4880]

@@blue_water3888 I found a method

[@isirakatakumburs4880]

@@blue_water3888 Go to the chromium app properties and add " Full screen " at the end of the path. Chromium will automatically open but you have to add some additional command to exit from the app

[@isirakatakumburs4880]

@@blue_water3888 those mensioned codes i found from youtube video. Search for it.

[@名字不重要-v6u]

hi I am encountering some problems with raspberry. I need to run an AppImage file immediately when every time raspberry turn on , and I am fine with that, the problem is how do I make the application re-open automatically when the application is closed?

[@Ishalak]

Thank you so much, great video! I've been looking how to run a program and then when it's fully loaded put it in full screen. How could i do that? Pls.

[@Rickmakes]

I know one way would be to pass an argument to the software. For instance, with chromium, you can run "chromium-browser --start-fullscreen" to run it full screen. Other software might have similar arguments.

[@nuovovideo]

Hi. Can I also run a program automatically at the start?

[@nomorecensorship2815]

That's what this whole video was about....

[@aw5453]

Thank you. How do you make it so chromium auto starts up in full screen mode. For example if I am showing a dashboard on a website when the pi powers up..

[@Rickmakes]

I think you can do something like: "chromium-browser --start-fullscreen". If you are making any sort of kiosk, I have a Wikipedia kiosk build here: www.rickmakes.com/locked-down-offline-wikipedia-kiosk-on-raspberry-pi-4/ You might be able to glean information from that build. I used the Surf browser full screen on it. It is lightweight but may not work with all web sites.

[@rodgerdodger7912]

Great video and thank you. 😊

[@dominox5659]

Very usefull! 🎉 Good video!

[@DjZiggy2]

Is there a command to open this in fullscreen mode.

[@creeperskydiver]

This is so helpful!

[@LTAdventurephoto]

I wanted this to work so bad. I cannot for the life of me get anytbing to happen no matter if i yse the global autostart file or the one in the usr folder. Copied your method which is similar to many others and nothing happens on start up at all. Do you know of anything that would be stopping the autostart commands from running? Its like the file isnt even being looked at 😭

[@diveshbhagooli6631]

I want to auto start a react js web app when my raspberry pi boots up. Is there any way to not show up the desktop and also not let the user minimizes to the desktop?

[@ujjwal18]

Thank you!

[@nicksklenicka8926]

Thank you! This is an easy method.

[@Rickmakes]

You're welcome!

[@vandp7043]

What do you press after the ctrl o and before the ctrl x? When i press ctrl o there is a bar that opens and i don't know what to do.

[@Rickmakes]

After ctrl o you press "enter" to confirm the file name. Then press ctrl x.

[@НикитаЗдоровец-з9х]

Спасибо, очень помог.

[@johnsandlin09]

I'm looking to start a web cam on start up what is the best method to use?

[@Rickmakes]

This does a similar thing for an IP camera: www.rickmakes.com/monitoring-an-ip-camera-using-a-raspberry-pi-no-internet/ It opens the camera full screen. The part that might be of assistance is the "Create Camera Service". You would need to change the "ExecStart" to open the web cam as opposed to the IP camera. This runs as a service and tried to restart the service if it fails.

[@awkamweng]

Is this workable for launch CMD in desktop ?

[@Rickmakes]

I'm not sure I know what CMD stands for.

[@EdvardiJ]

@@Rickmakes "CMD" is the shortened term for command prompt in Windows. What I think they meant to say was the "Terminal"

[@antoniodominemontescruz6563]

How do I get chrome to start in fullscreen?

[@franciscogarciaasensio5542]

Hello. I've got a question: how can I autorun a program and press a key ? I want to open a program and press F11 to make it desktop. Thank you for all.

[@Rickmakes]

I'm not sure how to do that. Which program are you wanting to do this with?

[@SLRCCLUB101]

I want to run a code to do that's Raspberry pi auto restart and open a web page specific time like 8.00am and then shutdown at 12.00pm every day.

[@SLRCCLUB101]

Could you help me please

[@twizzy12]

can this script work with VLC?

[@siddhantsingh8999]

Thanks buddy 😊

[@guigmfrota]

Great video, thx.

[@WeijingJayLin]

can we skip desktop?

[@TaylorK531]

Will not run an exported Processing sketch on RP3 Model B.

[@Rickmakes]

Is it giving you any specific errors?

[@tabormedia-7096]

thank you so much! much respect!

[@Rickmakes]

You're welcome!

[@ki6uve]

I tried this to launch Pianobar, but nothing happens. Has anyone got that app to autostart?

[@Glidedon]

Thank you Sir !

[@peterveileborg617]

How do i get chrome to start in fullscreen

[@antoniodominemontescruz6563]

I want to know too

[@mahmudulhasantushar8729]

How to stop ?

[@SusanAmberBruce]

It works! awesome thanks How do I make pi my own so I can have my own home directory and still have sudo privileges the same as for the pi user, and if I wanted, how would I then remove the pi user and change the hostname from raspberry?

[@Rickmakes]

Seemed like a good topic for today's video. Thank you! kzbin.info/www/bejne/joLUn5mdn7B0h5I

[@novalorisa]

this is amazing, but anyone know how to auto play a video?

[@andrewfoster7233]

Great video, exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

[@a1ang0r85]

Hello, thank you so much. Can I auto run a new python environment in terminal and then call a python game ? I can't make a rom to run retropie, so I am finding a way to run similar to it.

[@Rickmakes]

If you can run it from the terminal, you should be able to to auto run it.

[@kopileo9857]

i just write chr and enter and command not found. so what i've to do?

[@Rickmakes]

After you type "chr", you want to press tab. If you have "chromium-browser" installed, it will auto complete the line. If you want to learn more about it, google something like "what is command line completion" and you should find some deeper explanations. It can make it a lot easier to enter commands on the command line.

[@ardikfirmansyah]

This is work on dekstop only? Can i run for server version?

[@Rickmakes]

This is for desktop only. For a command line environment, you can use systemd. I have an example of using it in this video: www.rickmakes.com/monitoring-an-ip-camera-using-a-raspberry-pi-no-internet/

[@razajarrar9800]

Not working for RPi4 (Raspberry OS)

[@CybErUNB]

Its working on raspbian

[@antonios-m4291]

this works

[@Lloyd_Christmas11]

This doesn't work. Ugh. Trying to get qbittorrent to autostart, this doesn't do it.

[@MrElofix]

Fantastik video....exactly what i was looking for. I wanted to use the pi as a controll panel showing a machine webpage right at the start. By the way....how can i go back to desktop if i need to change something? The browser comes up in full screen and i cant press F11 for the window mode ;) I think i used the kiosk mode :/ @chromium-browser --kiosk URL

[@Rickmakes]

If you have ssh set up, you can log in remotely from another computer and run something like "killall chromium-browser". I think you might be able to type something like Control-Alt-F2 to get to a console. I did a video almost two months ago on setting up a locked down kiosk: www.rickmakes.com/locked-down-offline-wikipedia-kiosk-on-raspberry-pi-4/ You might be able to glean information from those instructions for your project.

[@MrElofix]

@@Rickmakes thx...contr alt F2 works...but i have to plug a bigger screen..at the moment i just attached the 3,5 inch screen for testing :)