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I have searched & googled a lot but I cannot get this to work.

I want the Beaglebone to boot up into my Qt application. However, what I get is that the GUI boots up OK but then in a few seconds the Angstrom login screen overwrites my GUI, which stays running in the background.

I set up a systemd service as follows in /etc/systemd/system:

#!/bin/sh

[Unit]
Description=Meta Systemd script
[Service]
USER=root
WorkingDirectory=/home/root
ExecStart=/bin/sh -c 'source /etc/profile ; /home/root/meta6 -qws'
After=local-fs.target
Type=oneshot
RemainAfterExit=yes

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

I activated it with:

systemctl enable meta.service

I disabled gdm with:

systemctl disable gdm

I suspect that maybe I should change the After statement to wait 'til some other service is complete. But what?

Regards, James

jas99
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  • As I understood you want your application be visible. So, it may try ask X to set it on top (if it is possible within X) or set your `After=` option to the last graphical service. You may even try setting `After=graphical.target` if there is one for graphical bootup. – Sergey Kanaev Nov 13 '13 at 06:15
  • Actually, I edited [link]/etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants/getty@tty1.service and commented out ExecStart. This stops the login screen appearing. My app then boots without interruption. – jas99 Nov 26 '13 at 12:48
  • Uh. Thats a tricky way ;-) You can try do like set `After=getty@tty1.service` to your apps unit file. That will make your app run after the tty1 graphical service. – Sergey Kanaev Nov 26 '13 at 21:19

2 Answers2

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The following commands will disable gdm on Beaglebone Black running angstrom

update-rc.d -f gdm remove
systemctl disable gdm.service
Mahendra Gunawardena
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Consider removing

#!/bin/sh

Also add the following to the file 

[Unit]
After=getty@.service or getty.target

Also change the following

[Service]
ExecStart=/home/root/meta6 -qws'

The following might not be required

[Service] 
After=local-fs.target

Reference

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