[openbox] Req: Make autostart less awkward

[Dana Jansens]

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Cedric Sodhi <manday at gmx.net> wrote:
> Another addition, if you don't mind. I think we /only/ need a script for
> post-startup. All pre-startup execution can take place in $HOME/.xinitrc,
> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d  or any other self-written script and is merely a
> redundancy if offered by OB. but, I admit, that's rather a matter of taste
> (and mine is minimalistic - but isnt that what OB is all about ;) ? )

No, people who use a display manager need the pre-startup script also
for user-specific environment settings.


Dana

>
> 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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