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mussedTux
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First post; and glad to be here...
Just had a quick question about something which has been niggling quite a bit recently; and I'll confess to being well out of my league in trying to find the answer
If one launches a bash script (for example) at boot-time via init, upstart, etc., and this script busies itself doing numerous handy things for a period well past user login, why can't this same loaded script launch an app which runs a GUI (even if the process is to be launched via a fork)? Is there some way in which this could gel without resorting to post login per-user processing via autostart, ~/.xinitrc, or similar?
At the heart of the matter is the utility of running a process which launches at boot and performs rudimentary services for all subsequent logins without desktop environment-level kludges.
Possible or pipe dream?
Thanks so much!
Just had a quick question about something which has been niggling quite a bit recently; and I'll confess to being well out of my league in trying to find the answer
If one launches a bash script (for example) at boot-time via init, upstart, etc., and this script busies itself doing numerous handy things for a period well past user login, why can't this same loaded script launch an app which runs a GUI (even if the process is to be launched via a fork)? Is there some way in which this could gel without resorting to post login per-user processing via autostart, ~/.xinitrc, or similar?
At the heart of the matter is the utility of running a process which launches at boot and performs rudimentary services for all subsequent logins without desktop environment-level kludges.
Possible or pipe dream?
Thanks so much!
