G'day, I'm surprised that .xsession isn't an option, it is what I use on Ubuntu. Check again.
/etc/gdm/Xsession refers to it. /etc/X11/Xsession refers to it. What is your display manager package? I use nodm. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 09:56:17AM -0300, Gustavo Duarte wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for your explanation, and show me the different options. > > In my case, Sugar is running over Ubuntu, so i guess, .xsession isn't an > option. I choice as workaround, modify sugar-session script to start this app. > > I'm agree with you, that a final solution could be sugar-session loads > application from a particular directory like Gnome do, from > /etc/xdg/autostart. > > Kind regards. > > Gustavo. > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 6:14 PM, James Cameron <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > There are many places an application can be started. > > Too many options. > > If I were doing this, my decision would be constrained by: > > - what Linux distribution is being used, > > - exactly what graphics resources are needed, > > - how critical it is that the application be started before or after > the Sugar shell, > > - if there is a performance impact caused by the application starting > at the same time as the other processes started by sugar-session. > > If you are using OLPC OS, read the source and learn the sequence: > > 1. systemd keeps /usr/sbin/olpc-dm running, (a C program, the sources > can be found in the olpc-utils git repository), > > 2. olpc-dm starts /usr/bin/olpc-session, (a shell script, also in > olpc-utils, also reads and executes .xsession file), > > 3. olpc-session starts /bin/sugar, > > 4. sugar starts /bin/sugar-session. > > While .xsession would seem to be a natural place to add an > application, doing this prevents easy use by the user later. Also, it > starts _before_ sugar-session, so it won't see the same graphics > resources (such as window manager properties and hints). > > echo "application &" >> .xsession > > There seems to be a lack of suitable places to set up such an > application without having to change some packages. In future I'd > like to see some feature of sugar-session that loads custom > applications or activities on start. > > -- > James Cameron > [2]http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [3][email protected] > [4]http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > References: > > [1] mailto:[email protected] > [2] http://quozl.linux.org.au/ > [3] mailto:[email protected] > [4] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
