[19:14] 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. [19:16] upstart view of "foreground" is quite different =) can you describe your application? is it graphical or terminal one? [19:26] It is a fullscreen video + audio player [19:26] But it might take some keyboard input as well [19:30] 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. [19:31] 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] see http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/ for further details and manpages, man init and related manpages from there. [19:35] Ok cool, thanks xnox ill check it out [19:37] Or hm, I would actually like the app to be started as root and not require the user to login. [19:37] 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 [19:38] How could i achieve this? :) [19:42] 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. [19:43] 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? [22:31] 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] Xeta: and auto-start your app from there. [22:32] 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] but it takes care to drop priviliges. [23:52] Is it possible to make upstart play nice with processes that change pids when reloading themselves? [23:52] It's kinda sorta but not quite like a restart.