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If you are going to continue using Filezilla, there are options to save the current configuration and to set up a number of alternative configurations (specifying in advanced tab different locations on your PC and different locations on your Pi).
== Running Cumulus MX ==
(When these notes were written, there were topics in the support forum about ways to use scripts for starting/stopping MX,
=== Running as a service ===
Just in case it is not obvious .... if you start MX using this command in a terminal window on your Pi, you must leave that session running for MX to continue to run. ▼
(awaiting someone to explain this)
=== Running with a terminal session left open ===
Whichever operating system you are using, to run MX requires an instruction that changes to the directory where it is installed (the instruction below is assuming it is in the standard Pi user home directory, the change directory command will be different if you have installed it elsewhere), and then starting the executable (using mono in the instruction below that applies to any non-Windows operating system). You may wish to add [[Cumulus_MX#Optional_parameters_to_add_to_the_instruction_to_run_the_MX_engine|Optional_parameters]].
▲The simplest instruction to run Cumulus MX is <tt>cd CumulusMX && sudo mono CumulusMx.exe</tt>. Just in case it is not obvious .... if you start MX using this command in a terminal window on your Pi, you must leave that session running,
You can start it off directly on your Pi, and then
*switch off monitor or TV attached to your Pi,
*Just ensure you leave Pi on so that terminal session continues running.
▲(When these notes were written, there were topics in the support forum about ways to use scripts for starting/stopping MX that get around the above restriction. A future MX version is planned to provide a script allowing MX to be run as a service, that also overcomes the above restriction).
== A very quick introduction to Linux ==
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