[openbox] Req: Make autostart less awkward

[Cedric Sodhi]

Hey Dana,

good news indeed! Thanks for the quick reply. Do these new scripts happen to be neutrally named and not .....sh? That's less than a minor concern but I thought while you guys are on it I might say that a script without any ending which implies a certain interpreter would make more sense (say, ~/.openbox/prestart and poststart rather than prestart.sh and poststart.sh)

just a thought,
regards,
--MD

On 08/08/2010 02:08 AM, Dana Jansens wrote:
> Hi MD,
>
> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Cedric Sodhi<manday at gmx.net>  wrote:
>> Hello, I've got a small feature request which I bet is quickly implemented,
>> that is to provide a script which is run *AFTER* openbox is loaded. From the
>> wiki I've understood that for all those applications which enhance OB post
>> startup (panels and so forth) one needs to introduce a sleep timeout so they
>> get called once OB has surely loaded.
>>
>> I think I musn't say that this is error prone, unflexible, introduces
>> unessecary delays and is, tmho, utterly unelegant. You could do great work
>> if you could let OB take a startup parameter / config option (cant tell
>> what's more appropriate as I'm new to OB) which designates a script which is
>> supposed to be run after OB has reach stable running status.
>
> Good news.. this is already the case in our under-development version
> of Openbox.  I've set it up with two scripts for autostart - one for
> setting env variables (which is why autostart runs before openbox in
> the first place) and one for running applications after openbox has
> started.
>
> Thanks for your input. Cheers,
> Dana
>
>> thanks for the effort already,
>> regards,
>> --MD
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