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
helllo,
if your desktop supports the freedesktop spec (LXDE, Gnome...), you
just have to add a *.desktop entry in the ~/.config/autostart folder.
A .desktop looks like this (though you could refine/simplify it):
[Desktop Entry]
Name=mypdlauncher
Exec=/bin/sh /home/pduser/pd-daemon.sh
Or, you can use 'while true pd somefile.pd' as the last command in your
.xsession or .xinitrc
Oli44 wrote:
helllo,
if your desktop supports the freedesktop spec (LXDE, Gnome...), you
just have to add a *.desktop entry in the ~/.config/autostart folder.
A .desktop looks like this (though
On Ubuntu, I call my startup script in ~/.bash_profile and my shutdown/cleanup
script in ~/.bash_logout.
Also, you will need to put . .bashrc at the beginning of the .bash_profile so
all the default shell settings will be setup when it is called.
On Feb 17, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Bart Koppe
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
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:
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
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
