[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Launching browser at startup

[From: Michael Wiktowy]

On 9/18/06, Kalle Vahlman <kalle.vahlman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2006/9/18, tomas at oranginalab.com <tomas at oranginalab.com>:
> >  We are developing a Flash application to run on Nokia 770 devices and
> we
> > would like this application to be launched automatically when the device
> is
> > switched on. How can we launch opera browser (in fullscreen mode) at
> > startup? We've tried editing .profile and .ashrc but it does not work.
> Any
> > help would be appreciate. Thank you in advance. Tomàs
>
> The usual (linux/debian) way of startup scripts are in /etc/init.d and
> then a link to /etc/rc2.d (with name like "S99xx").


Actually, that would be the place to put system-wide daemon/services startup
scripts that have no UI. There should be a script in there that runs the
desktop manager and within the desktop manager there should be mechanisms in
place to start things up in a particular users session so that all the
proper environment variables and user contexts are set. The rc startup
scripts are a very wrong place to put a command to start up the browsers in
a user's desktop.

.ashrc is also not entirely proper either as that is the script that is
fired when an ash shell is started up to get a virtual terminal, AFAIK. Not
something that happens automatically at Maemo desktop startup.

As you'll want it to run as "user" not root, you might want to add it
> to /etc/osso-af-init/ and edit real-af-base-apps to run the script so
> you'll get the environment setup for free. You can look at the other
> scripts there for examples.


That seems to be the place but that script system sure is package manager
unfriendly.
Other distros typically have a script that will call any script placed in an
/etc/something.d/ directory. That way a .deb (or rpm or whatever) can add or
remove their hooks into the main startup sequence without having to parse
(and possibly corrupt) the main start script.

Are there other mechanisms around like this or maybe some gconf-2 variables
that can be poked that act on the session level rather than system level?

/Mike
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