[Sugar-devel] Configure an Activity to start at boot time.

[James Cameron]

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]quozl at laptop.org> 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
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