Hi Terry, > 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.
I think you're approaching it the wrong way around. When the X server starts it runs a command and when that command finishes the X server stops. The command normally starts a window or session manager which in turn start up panels, initial applications, etc. It's here that you should be running a browser. Because of the flexibility it's hard to give explicit instructions as to how to set this up. Is there a ~/.xsession or ~/.xsessionrc file? If it's a shell script you should be able to spot where to run the browser in there. Alternatively, http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#appstart Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
