Turning off the screen saver – Easy way An easy way to achieve this is to install xscreensaver then configure it to disable (its also the Raspberry Pi recommended way) Then in the GUI go to Preferences > Screensaver > Display Modes > Select disable screen saver from the dropdown. Turning off the console screen saver – […]

Auto running a script Create the script Create a folder to store the script in mkdir ./bin cd ./bin Create the script using the nano text editor sudo nano script_auto_run In the nano editor, type this script: #!/bin/bash # Script to start our application echo "Doing autorun script…" sudo /home/pi/projects/my_project.a &   Replace "sudo /home/pi/projects/my_project.a […]

Storing a file on the SD card via Windows Windows can't see the main Linux partition but it can see the boot partition.  If you want you can store a file here, say a text file for instance, indicating to yourself what a card is, notes etc.