sorpiart

Raspberry Pi project on "Painting with Sound"

To run Tkinter GUI on boot

In order to run your tkinter gui script (e.g. main.py) everytime the Raspberry Pi boots up, we can utilise on autostart.

Configuration (autostart)

1. open terminal
2. change directory to .config 2.1 cd .config/
3. Create an autostart folder 3.1 mkdir autostart
4. copy tkinterautostart.desktop into the folder 4.1 cp ~/sorpiart/tkinterautostart.desktop ~/.config/autostart/
5. edit tkinterautostart.desktop 5.1 nano ~/.config/autostart/tkinterautostart.desktop

To install sox library (pix2music)

In order for pix2music.py to work, the Raspberry Pi will require the Sound Exchange (sox) library to be installed.

To install sox

1. open terminal
2. sudo apt install sox