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Re: Starting an application on login



On 04/06/14 11:40, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 12:07, Daniel Lintott wrote:
>> On 04/06/14 09:53, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
>>> BuildNotify lets you "monitor multiple continuous integration servers
>>> with customizable build notifications for all projects".
>>>
>>> I would assume it will only do useful work after configuration. If that
>>> is the case, I think setting up the autostart bits should be done by
>>> BuildNotify when a user has entered something useful into the configuration.
>>
>> That is mostly correct... currently BuildNotify needs to be
>> started/running to access the configuration GUI.
> 
> Well, then a user has to start it once manually. Subsequent starts will
> happen automatically.

Okay.

>> I have found that this is then saved to a file in plain text, which
>> would mean I could create a debconf scenario to perform the initial
>> configuration and add the appropriate autostart scripts.
> 
> There is no per-user configuration done at package installation time. So
> I don't see where you plan to use debconf. Or does BuildNotify use a
> global configuration?
> 
> Just let BuildNotify add itself to the per-user autostart once a user
> has configured it. No need for debconf or anything special in the packaging.

This is something I presume that will need to be handled upstream as
currently it doesn't provide a simple autostart option.

Regards
Daniel

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