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	joerg_rw	2011-02-28 , 18:42
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there's a lot of hacks to start processes on boottime, like adding a QueenBeecon button and set to execute-once.

The generic way however is to add

Code:

X-Maemo-Prestarted=always
X-Maemo-Prestarted-Priority=<somehigh1000number>

to the .desktop file of the app to start in /usr/share/applications/hildon.
This will start the app after hildon-desktop got initialized and all the background magic that's happening during boot releases the CPU. This might take some 2..3 minutes.

Tested with xchat, works just fine. After CPU got a few moments of spare time, xchat starts up and window goes on top.
(the X-Maemo-Prestarted-Priority is a sequence number. calendar got 3000, so I used 5000 to make xchat start after calendar background process)

[edit] I stopped using this for xchat, since there's no way to stop an app which got started this way, it always gets respawned. Alas X-Maemo-Prestarted= doesn't take any other meaningful arguments than "always"

/jOERG

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Last edited by joerg_rw; 2012-10-30 at 15:47.

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