Re: headless system won't make a default choice

I'm not sure I understand what you want, but probably you can replace 
the show_menu function with the bash 'select' statement. ORCA should 
read that.

See https://linuxize.com/post/bash-select/

On 5/6/25 13:53, K0LNY ?? wrote:
> Hello,
> I have this police/fire software on a Raspberry PI, which is Debian.
> The sighted guy who helped me make this was able to tune the trunked 
> P25 stuff by using Anydesk to log in and tune the waterfall visual 
> tuner from another city.
> I'm trying to get the default choice to work on boot-up, but the only 
> way it works is for him to log in and click on the desktop menu option 
> in the choice window that is on the desktop.
> I only SSH into it, but this is supposed to default to a choice after 
> a few seconds but it does not do that.
> There is a menu.sh file in the home directory, and there is a service 
> file to run the script, which does run on startup, but the default 
> choice is only made when he logs in and clicks on the choice.
> I'll attach the menu file here in case anyone is interested in looking 
> at it to see if they might be able to tell why the default choice is 
> not happening.
> Thanks
> Glenn
>
> You know nothing for sure, except the fact that you know nothing for 
> sure.
> John F. Kennedy
> Glenn K0LNY & WSAT439