How to disable auto-restart of ES in cmdline?

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06/25/2015 at 15:32 #100703

jymihan
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Hey RetroPie Community!

Does anyone know how to disable the auto-restart of Emulationstation once you exit to command line? I’ve been looking through all the forums and in RetroPie scripts but to no avail. I have tons of roms on my sd and it takes quite awhile to load and exit out of es. A lot of the times, the “press any key to exit in 5 seconds” does not work for me due to the long exiting of es. Has anyone found how to disable this? Thank you!

06/25/2015 at 20:46 #100723

Floob
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As a quick aside – when exiting ES, press a key then anyway, and I’m pretty sure it will remember that once it has exited ES fully. Does for me anyway!

06/25/2015 at 21:12 #100727

jymihan
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It works 50/50. Sometimes it does other times it doesn’t. Anyways, thanks for the reply Floob. Love your videos! Helped me so much with setting up Retropie!
You’re doing God’s work =)

06/25/2015 at 21:17 #100728

Floob
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Thanks :)
I’ll fish out the setting you want in a min.

06/25/2015 at 21:41 #100730
Floob
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It looks like its this part
```
while [[ -z "\$key" ]]; do
    \$es_bin "\$@"
    echo "EmulationStation will restart in 5 seconds. Press a key to exit back to console."
    IFS= read -s -t 5 -N 1 key </dev/tty
```
which is in
/home/pi/RetroPie-Setup/scriptmodules/supplementary/emulationstation.sh

Its the $es_bin that restarts ES, so I guess you could just take that out.
I really need to improve my scripting to understand it better though :)
06/25/2015 at 21:50 #100732

herbfargus
Member

You could also change the 5 to 10 or 20 If you want it to take longer or as floob said you can take out $es_bin

06/25/2015 at 22:19 #100734

jymihan
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Thank you Floob for finding the right script! Looking forward to your future videos. Thank you herbfargus, it looks like I can play around with the timing.
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