On Friday 07 Jan 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
> > Of course, if you have more than one X session running, or if you are
> > running X remotely, then things may go a bit wonky since DISPLAY will
> > need to be something else!
>
> One way for this to happen is to "switch user" so that other user logs
> in on their own desktop. `echo $DISPLAY' will show something else on
> that second X server, probably ":20.0". So if one day that other user
> beats you to the machine, he gets :0.0 and you get lumbered with :20.0.
>
> Where is this script to run at boot time? It may also fail if the
> user's desktop isn't up and running by then.
This is going to run on our TC live disc with the command to start it being in
/opt/bootlocal.sh. There will only be one user when it is run and I know that
X & the desktop are running when it gets to this part of the script. I
suppose it could conceivably happen the other way round, but I haven't seen it
yet.
However, just in case; is there a reliable way of testing to see if X is up
before launching Chromium? If so, I could wait in a loop until it is.
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