Re: X11 without a desktop

From: Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com>
To: "Burton, Ross" <ross.burton@intel.com>
Cc: Yocto Project <yocto@yoctoproject.org>
Subject: Re: X11 without a desktop
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:29:40 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FFD2F4.8000103@mlbassoc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJTo0LbCUFz4cSmcORyfe7c+nhJDJoWURPHVVMnfpBZ9JwmYMQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 2013-08-05 08:50, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 5 August 2013 15:14, Gary Thomas <gary@mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>> I'm running a system roughly based on core-image-sato except
>> that I've disabled the matchbox desktop (I only have a single
>> application).  Some things still seem to want the desktop
>> to be in place though, in particular I don't get a popup
>> keyboard on my touch screen until I see this message:
>>    Timeout waiting for org.matchbox_project.desktop.Loaded
>>
>> The problem is that this timeout is quite long - maybe a minute?
>>
>> How can I fully disable this or adjust the timeout to be shorter?
>
> That's the matchbox-keyboard init script which waits for the desktop
> to say it's loaded, easily patched out (the intention was to serialise
> the final stages of the boot so the desktop appeared quickly and then
> the keyboard loaded in the background).

I found this:
    if [ "$CMD" ]; then
       # Delay to make sure the window manager is active
       # by waiting for the desktop to say its finished loading
       dbus-wait org.matchbox_project.desktop Loaded
       exec $CMD
   fi

Can I safely just disable the dbus-wait or do I need something else
there, e.g. sleep for a few seconds, ...?  Maybe I should patch dbus-wait
(which you, Ross, wrote) to be able to specify the timeout?

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