I believe that there is a setting that can delay the startup of BOINC tasks for X seconds. If this is true, then we have to be storing the BOINC startup time, and we could piggyback off of that somehow.
-----Original Message----- From: boinc_dev [mailto:boinc_dev-boun...@ssl.berkeley.edu] On Behalf Of Jussi Lahtinen Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:10 PM To: boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu Subject: [boinc_dev] IDLE detection on Linux BOINC's IDLE detection on Linux desktops seem to have been always broken (only the ways have changed). There are various methods for BOINC to get the IDLE time on Linux, but I have focused on trying to fix the one that relies on Xserver. It seems that BOINC starts too soon to work properly with X. Because if you restart BOINC after desktop is fully loaded, it will work as expected. Correct assumption? So I tried to prevent BOINC to touch X related code until X is really ready. See attachment and from the end function named "xss_idle". This doesn't work for reasons I'm not aware. Anyone knows what is the problem with this method? Or how to fix it? Alternatively, is there function/method to make BOINC to restart itself? Or is there method to make BOINC start later? Sleep command doesn't work here and Upstart etc init scripts doesn't seem to provide needed features. Jussi _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list boinc_dev@ssl.berkeley.edu http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
