Ok, solved!
In the end I did the following (or one way to build a kiosk pd):
I'm running a fresh install of Debian Lenny, I now disabled gdm.
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
Then I changed (thanks to the debian forums) the
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty1
entry in /etc/inittab to:
1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 --autologin myusername
and installed rungetty.
Then put the following at the top in ~/.bash_profile
if [ -z "$DISPLAY" ] && [ $(tty) == /dev/tty1 ]; then
while [ 1 == 1 ]
do
startx
sleep 10
done
fi
And ran init q, which made me happy.. :)
Then I edited my .xinitrc to:
#!/bin/sh
/home/abortx/./sw-daemon.sh &
sleep 4
/home/abortx/./pd-daemon.sh &
exec gnome-session
and all works. I only have to think about why using the standard gnome
window manager ;)
Actually pd does crash sometimes. I have one script sending live mjpeg
streams to vloopback (dev/video0). pdp_v4l seems to be the only object
that can read virtual loopback devices.. This I send again to GEM. Then
I also change the streams going to /dev/video0, so I don't make live
easy for pd ;)
Thanks all for your help, greatly appreciated!
Bart
On 02/17/2010 06:09 PM, B. Bogart wrote:
Hey Bart,
When the script running in xsession exits, it will restart X, so if
you have autologin, and PD crashing does cause an exit, then it will
restart automatically when it crashes. Note I don't find PD doing that
on linux very often...
Also if PD stalls without exiting you can get the gallery staff to
just "control-alt-backspace" to restart the patch without restarting
the computer.
.b.
Bart Koppe wrote:
Hi Ben,
I would like the script to be respawnd, in the rare case the script
might crash. Afaik putting it in .xsessions only cares of starting
the script, right?
Chrs,
bart
On 02/17/2010 04:35 AM, B. Bogart wrote:
Hey Bart,
Put the PD startup stuff in your ~/.xsession, and configure your
display manager to use xsession. (eg chosee 'Xclient script' in GDM)
.b.
Bart Koppe wrote:
Hi,
I use PD-extended in Debian Lenny, this for a small
media-installation.
After the pc boots and logged into X, i would like pd (with gui) to
start automatically.
I made the script below and wanted to use that in /etc/inittab. It
seems to start as root and does not show a gui either.
The script itself works perfectly ok when I run it myself.
How can I configure inittab correctly so it runs as user instead of
root, and shows the gui to?
My current inittab entry [to say: I don't know anything about
inittab (blush) ]
TY:23:respawn:/home/abortx/pd-daemon.sh
the script (pd-daemon.sh)
#!/bin/sh
RUNNING=
export DISPLAY=:0.0
pd -open /home/abortx/pd/pdp-gem-bridge-3.pd &
while true; do
RUNNING=`pidof pd`
if [ -z $RUNNING ]; then
pd -open /home/abortx/pd/pdp-gem-bridge-3.pd &
fi
sleep 10
done
Thanks!
Bart
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