[maemo-developers] How to autostart a graphical Java Swing application?

[From: Kees Jongenburger]

Hi Martin


On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Martin Wegner <martinator.de at arcor.de> wrote:

    Hello,

    I want to autostart a graphical Java Swing application but I don't know
    how :(

    I tried this:

    /etc/init.d/run.sh with this contents:

    #!/bin/sh
    sleep 20
    /home/user/ejre1.6.0_10/bin/java -classpath /home/user/bin Test

    When I run this script manually the Java Swing application starts with
    no problems.



    So I called:

    update-rc.d run.sh defaults 99 01

    When I boot the Nokia then I can go to the X terminal and wait 15-20
    seconds. With a little bit of luck I can see the Java application when I
    call ps -ef but when I call ps -ef a second time the Java application is
    not any longer shown in the ps list :(


last time I checked this was possible(dangerous?) so please try adding
export DISPLAY=:0 to the start of the script

There is probably a more Proper way to do this. The clean "x11 way" of doing
this is to have it started in the Xsession. this way your software also
runs as the "user" user and not root :P.

greetings