Re: How to change the startup application

[Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>]

On 2012-04-03 14:34, Liu, Song wrote:
> Hi Autif, thanks a lot for providing the answer here. Since no one is showing any objections here, I updated the wiki page with your answer (https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/FAQ:How_do_I_change_and_add_startup). Please let me know if there is any suggestions or concerns.

This rather narrow answer is only useful if you are running a MatchBox desktop.
There are many other deployment scenarios which would require a different approach.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Autif Khan [mailto:autif.mlist@gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 4:56 PM
> To: Liu, Song
> Cc: yocto@yoctoproject.org
> Subject: Re: [yocto] How to change the startup application
>
>> I got a question about how to change the startup application with Yocto for images generated with Yocto.
>> And I googled it and landed on this page:
>> https://wiki.yoctoproject.org/wiki/FAQ:How_do_I_change_and_add_startup
>> _scripts. Pretty good, someone was thinking about the same thing. But
>> this page turns out to be empty. It seems that we need to get better than this.
>>
>> I'm wondering if someone could update this wiki page or if the information is somewhere else...
>
> I do not know of if the information is elsewhere - I had to find this information for my project
>
> Here is my stab at it (already updated the wiki):
>
> Q: How do I change and add startup scripts?
>
> A: Edit meta/recipes-sato/matchbox-sato/matchbox-session-sato/session.
> Of course, if you have your own meta-layer, append the matchbox-session-sato_0.1.bb recipe.
>
> Disable 'matchbox-desktop' and 'matchbox-panel', however, do not disable 'exec matchbox-window-manager ...'
>
> Don't forget to run your app as a background process
>
> For example, the following code will start the fifteen game:
>
> #matchbox-desktop&
>
> # Lines containing feature-[foo] are removed at build time if the machine # doesn't have the feature "foo".
>
> #START_APPLETS=showdesktop,windowselector
> #END_APPLETS=clock,battery,systray,startup-notify,notify
> #END_APPLETS=openmoko-panel-gsm,$END_APPLETS # feature-phone
>
> #matchbox-panel --titlebar --start-applets $START_APPLETS --end-applets $END_APPLETS&
>
> /usr/games/fifteen&
>
> exec matchbox-window-manager -theme Sato -use_desktop_mode decorated -use_cursor $SHOWCURSOR $@
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