On Wed, 6 May 2009 20:04:58 +0200 Laszlo KREKACS <[email protected]> said:
> Hi! > > I hope my questions are mainly rtfm ones, so someone can provide me > the right links;) > > Short story: > I installed om2009, and after I installed paroli from git. > I could launch the new paroli (latest git) from command line. > So I thought a little modification in /usr/share/paroli.desktop would be > enough. > > I changed in the desktop file the Exec and TryExec line, but when I clicked on > the Desktop button, nothing happened (didnt launch paroli). > > I even restarted the phone hoping it will magically load. But it > loaded instead the > old paroli application! even when no .desktop file existed for it. > > So I suspect there are definietly some caching mechanism inside E, and this > is the reason why paroli failed to launch. the only cache is a runtime cache in ram - none on disk. and restart of e (including its own restart) will completely rebuild it from disk. it does monitor files and on changes, reads them. there could be a race condition with a partially written file by the time e reads it. so chances are... your command is just wrong. if it can change the name - its loading all the fields, and then running them. e may have a different $PATH in its environment than your shell remember, so use full paths to be explicit. > Because when I changed every name in the .desktop file: > Name, GenericName, Comment > > The icon magically begun to work. But when I start the phone the *old* paroli > gets loaded. (I need to close it, and start the new one via the desktop > button) that'd be starting prolie via some other means - like startup scripts in /etc/X11/Xsession.d - dig around in /etc/X11 > So my question are: > 1. Where are the autolaunching application defined (paroli starts > automagically) > 2. How can I force E to reload the .desktop file and execute it and > not the old (cached) one. it should do it automatcally. an e restart will force everything to reload (killall -HUP enlightenment). > 3. How can I make sure the E autolaunch the right application? the launching you are seeeing is not from e but from oe's Xsession script setup - see above. > Any idea, documentation, comments are appreciated! > > Im playing since hours with this problem. > > Best regards, > Laszlo > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
