| Xeta | Hi! Is it possible to make upstart-job start an application in the foreground? I want my process to be run on startup and be the first thing the user sees. | 19:14 |
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| xnox | upstart view of "foreground" is quite different =) can you describe your application? is it graphical or terminal one? | 19:16 |
| Xeta | It is a fullscreen video + audio player | 19:26 |
| Xeta | But it might take some keyboard input as well | 19:26 |
| xnox | Xeta: if you are using saucy or later. I suggest for a default (non-root capable) user account to auto-login. And then you can auto-launch a graphical application on user-session login. | 19:30 |
| xnox | Xeta: the locations you can put the user-session upstart job is at ~/.config/upstart/, or more global locations (admin path /etc/xdg/upstart/, packaging path /usr/share/upstart/sessions/) | 19:31 |
| xnox | see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/ for further details and manpages, man init and related manpages from there. | 19:31 |
| Xeta | Ok cool, thanks xnox ill check it out | 19:35 |
| Xeta | Or hm, I would actually like the app to be started as root and not require the user to login. | 19:37 |
| Xeta | We are making kinda like a media box (with the rpi) where the user shouldn't have to login and our app should be the only thing runing in the foreground | 19:37 |
| Xeta | How could i achieve this? :) | 19:38 |
| Xeta | Im my current config im more or less just doing "exec /myapp". And it is kinda working, the video ourput from my app is shown after startup, but so is the normal prompt to login as a user. | 19:42 |
| Xeta | So hm, maybe my question is: How do I hide the login-prompt after boot so that it just shows the video output from my application? | 19:43 |
| xnox | Xeta: you don't want your app to run as root, create a user account to run your app, password-less and set lightdm to autologin. | 22:31 |
| xnox | Xeta: and auto-start your app from there. | 22:31 |
| xnox | Xeta: or look at e.g. ubiquity, it start on starting lightdm, and if one "quits" ubiquity one is taken lightdm (normal or auto login) | 22:32 |
| xnox | but it takes care to drop priviliges. | 22:32 |
| SegFaultAX | Is it possible to make upstart play nice with processes that change pids when reloading themselves? | 23:52 |
| SegFaultAX | It's kinda sorta but not quite like a restart. | 23:52 |
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