autostart of app(s) while weston starts

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:25:36 -0700
Bill Spitzak <spitzak at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015 09:40:51 +0200
> > Christian Hartmann <cornogle at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > is it possible to autostart of app(s) while weston starts ??
> > > Would be nice to have such an feature, if its not present yet,
> > > I can sent an email to wayland-devel-request :) *if its not done
> > > already by another user*
> >
> > It's a missing feature:
> >
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2014-October/017971.html
> >
> > In summary, there were patches to implement it in weston-desktop-shell,
> > but that will misbehave if weston-desktop-shell ever restarts
> > (crashes): it would launch the apps again. So it should be implemented
> > in Weston.
> >
> > So far no-one has had the time to get back to that, AFAIK.
> >
> 
> It seems like it would be possible for Weston to pass a switch or
> environment variable telling the shell that it is being restarted rather
> than the initial run. It does make more sense for this to be in the shell.

It will be in the shell, but not the shell helper program.

> Another possibility is to require autostart to check if the things being
> started are already running.

We also want to keep it simple...


Thanks,
pq