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**HOWTO easily add Serviio as a start service in Mint Linux** | **HOWTO easily add Serviio as a start service in Mint Linux** | ||
- | For those who do not want to install Serviio to /usr and like to keep things clean and easy to use it is possible with Mint Linux to add serviio to the Menu or easily have it also work as a startup program. The Mint Control Centre does the job very nicely without having to create a script or run sudo to add a program from /usr as a start service. | + | For those who do not want to install Serviio to /usr and like to keep things clean and easy to use it is possible with Mint Linux to add serviio to the Menu or easily have it also work as a startup program. The Mint Control Centre does the job very nicely without having to create a script or run sudo to add a program from /usr as a startup |
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- | The caveat is that only the user profile that creates the Serviio startup will start Serviio | + | The caveat is that only the user profile that creates the Serviio startup will start Serviio |
- | With Mint it is a snap to right click on the menu and edit your "start menu" (in windows speak)...you can even add links to scripts that start multiple programs or multiple instances of the same program. | + | With Mint all you do is right click on the menu and edit your "start menu" (in windows speak) |
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+ | Though Serviio will not run multiple instances. It is entirely | ||
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+ | How to do all this is beyond the scope of this article but I strongly encourage you to learn simple bash scripting. | ||
However if all you want to do is start Serviio when you log in as a specific user and not when the computer boots or other users log in then here is exactly how easy it is to accomplish with Mint Linux | However if all you want to do is start Serviio when you log in as a specific user and not when the computer boots or other users log in then here is exactly how easy it is to accomplish with Mint Linux | ||
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- | Remember | + | Remember not to set a startup item to the serviio-console.sh ...if you do you will get the little " |
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+ | You can easily create scripts to launch multiple programs in a timed sequence as a service in Linux. But it makes more sense to keep Serviio in the background as a service then adjust its settings | ||