#3 Power-On Autostart

[Simon Bridger]

I want to automatically run up a particular app directly from power on, with no intervention.

This would be FLDIGI-fsq or WSJTX-wspr

In the latter case it will need to login to the network also.

[Andy Stewart]

Hi Simon,

In the icewm window manager, edit the ~/.icewm/startup file and put the desired commands in that file.

You may need to copy those files from /etc/X11/icewm into your ~/.icewm directory before editing the startup file. Don't edit the version in /etc/X11/icewm.

If you're using the experimental version with the xfce windowing environment, this menu will help: Menu -> Settings -> Session and Startup and go to the Application Autostart tab.

73,

Andy

[Simon Bridger]

Thanks, I'll try that part,
But how to make it automatically boot to Linux without any intervention.
At the moment you have to select:
Live boot option then Ubuntu login.

As a general note, I do not want to login to my computer. Ever. It is just useless busy-work, and causes problems. [Is there even any credible case where Andys Ham Linux needs to be secured by a login and password?]

So what I would like is
a) Pause then default to live boot from the usb
b) default is automatic Ubuntu login

[Andy Stewart]

On 4/3/20 6:28 PM, Simon Bridger wrote:

Thanks, I'll try that part,
But how to make it automatically boot to Linux without any intervention.
At the moment you have to select:
Live boot option then Ubuntu login.

As a general note, I do not want to login to my computer. Ever. It is just
useless busy-work, and causes problems. [Is there even any credible case where
Andys Ham Linux needs to be secured by a login and password?]

So what I would like is
a) Pause then default to live boot from the usb
b) default is automatic Ubuntu login

Hi Simon,

During boot, if nothing is typed, after a brief pause, the system should boot
into whatever option is the GRUB default. You won't see that on the Live
distro, you'll have to install it on the hard drive (or try installing it in
Virtualbox).

I'm not aware of a way to do auto login. DuckDuckGo is your friend. Let us
know if you find a solution.

Keep in mind that AHRL is stock Ubuntu with lots of customization of the
package list. More often than not, searching for Ubuntu based solutions will
work on AHRL. Keep in mind that the window manager is icewm, which is not part
of stock Ubuntu. That'll be changing shortly as I move the entire user
interface to xfce4.

73,

Andy

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