[Fluxbox-users] Fwd: Problem with fbautostart

[Rainer M K. <r.m...@gm...>]

Forgot to send to the list - here it is


On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Paul Tagliamonte <pa...@ub...> wrote:

> Please CC me in replies, I'm not on this list.
>

OK.


>
> > Hi
> >
> > I wanted to use fbautostart, but it does not execute all .desktop files
> in
> > the foldes - it seems to hang. When I use --noexec, it just stops after
> some
> > .desktop files, whereas dex (
> > https://github.com/jceb/dex) shows all.
>
> Hi there. Author here.
>

Hi Author.


>
> It looks like it's hanging because of a stupid race condition. Just
> hit enter. It won't block anything, and if it was in a "fbautostart &&
> echo foo", it'd work fine :) It only *looks* shitty :)
>

So if I put
  fbautostart &
in the fluxbox startup file, it should work? \


>
> fbautostart also will only start .desktop files that don't exclude
> "FLUXBOX" in the directive (e.g., it won't start something that says:
>
>    OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;
>
> (taken from nm-applet.desktop)).
>

OK - that explains. I wasn't aware of this - I then have to check all.


>
> However, you may invoke fbautostart with the --window-manager to change
> this.
>
>    Example: fbautostart --window-manager=GNOME
>
> If you would like a use-case where fbautostart breaks XDG spec and
> starts all .desktop files, please file a bug on Launchpad[1] against
> it :)
>

No - I am happy with XDG specs, but an idea: would it be possible to print,
when using --noexec, also the name of the .desktop file and why it was not
executed? So an output like:

/etc/xdg/autostart
prg1.desktop --- not started --- OnlyShowIn=GNOME;XFCE;
pgr2.desktop --- started --- and here the usual start info as printed

~/.config/autostart
.
.
.

This would help a lot in finding out what is why not started.


>
> Hope this helps!
>

Definitely


> Paul
>
> P.S. --noexec tells it to not execute any applications, simply print
> what it's looking to start. It only prints files that match it's
>

Yes - that is very useful.


> --window-manager ID. You can see what it's using by default with
> --help:
>
>    $ fbautostart --help | grep behalf
>    I am doing this on behalf of 'FLUXBOX'
>

Thanks a lot,

Rainer


>
> [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fbautostart
>
> >
> > Anything I can do to help? should I send the compressed .desktop files to
> > somebody?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Rainer
> >
> > P.S: I think I am definitely back with fluxbox!
>
> Rock on! Welcome back!
>

Thanks - Fluxbox gives a fuzzy warm feeling.



> -Paul
>
> --
> All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.
>
> #define sizeof(x) rand()
> :wq
>



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