How to start PIA gui app from the command line;

lepidas

Hello, I would like to know how to start PIA gui app from the command line, for example I can start Firefox just by typing 'firefox' on the command line.

martouf

the content of ~/.config/autostart/pia_manager.desktop is:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=Private Internet Access
Exec=/opt/pia/run.sh --startup
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true
Icon=/opt/pia/frontend/img/icon_512x512.png

Max-P

To be a bit clearer, what martouf posted is the autostart entry. This one will only work if you have enabled starting on boot. There are other ways that will always start it normally:

~/pia.sh

if you haven't deleted it after the installer.

Otherwise you can also run that to start the app itself:

/opt/pia/run.sh

If you'd like to make it _really_ short, you can always make it an alias in your shell:

alias pia="/opt/pia/run.sh"

Which makes it available as just "pia".