#1 2016-03-23 13:39:27

mais

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[SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Hello bunsenlabs community,

First of all, I want to thank the dev team and the community for this great distro.Although I have successfully managed to bring it to my taste, I am currently facing an autostart problem.

Searching about how I can have a keyboard layout indicator in tint2, I came across ibus and xxkb. I preferred xxkb, since ibus does a lot more than what I need. I followed this guide about installing & configuring graphical language switcher (xxkb).

Here goes the problem. The indicator does not run/appear at system startup. This is my autostart file. After many tries and some help from irc civilians, I have some conclusions:

1) xxkb is working like expected when I run "xxkb" in terminal,
2) The command "(sleep 1s && xxkb) &" is correct, since that when I run it directly in terminal, it works like expected,
3) When I change "xxkb" at the above command (2), in ~/.config/openbox/autostart file, with another application (eg. terminator, "(sleep 1s && terminator) &"), the "new" application launches at system startup.

Some maybe relevant information:

/etc/default/keyboard
~/.xsessionrc

I would appreciate it if you could provide me a solution to this problem, and not recommend me to install ibus for instance.

Thank you for your time,
mais

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 17:09:26)

damo

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Is there a difference if you start it before or after tint2 in autostart? Does it appear (in the systray I presume) if you start it manually?

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nobody

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Can you check ~/.xsession-errors and/or `journalctl --user` for any indicative error messages?

mais

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Is there a difference if you start it before or after tint2 in autostart? Does it appear (in the systray I presume) if you start it manually?

I will place the "(sleep 1s && xxkb) &" command before tint2 to check if it will work, since that right now it is after tint2. No luck placing it before tint2, in autostart file. Yes, when I start it manually it appears in systray.

Can you check ~/.xsession-errors and/or `journalctl --user` for any indicative error messages?

~/.xsession-errors
`journalctl --user` - returned "No journal files were found."

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 14:08:15)

xaos52

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Show us your xxkb configuration file please

Horizon_Brave

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

mais, as an aside you may want to enable journaling for your systemd logging, it's pretty useful when debugging.

1. vi /etc/systemd/journal.conf
2. uncomment the lines 'storage' and 'compress'
3. Change storage to a value that you would like, such as persistent, volatile, or auto.
4. run the command   

systemctl daemon-reload 

If this doesn't work, you may just want to reboot fully.

5.Now cd to /var/log/journal/ <journal string>
This directory should now be created and contain the system.journal and the user's journal. If there is no /var/log/journal directory, make it, and reboot again.

now try using the journalctl command

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mais

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Show us your xxkb configuration file please

XXkb.image.path: /home/mais/.config/xxkb

XXkb.group.base: 1
XXkb.group.alt: 2


XXkb.mainwindow.type: tray
XXkb.mainwindow.enable: yes
XXkb.mainwindow.appicon: yes
XXkb.mainwindow.border.width: 1
XXkb.mainwindow.label.enable: no
XXkb.mainwindow.border.color: white
XXkb.mainwindow.geometry: 20x20+0+0
XXkb.mainwindow.image.1: gb.xpm
XXkb.mainwindow.image.2: gr.xpm
XXkb.mainwindow.image.3: 
XXkb.mainwindow.image.4: 
XXkb.mainwindow._delete: no

XXkb.button.enable: no

XXkb.controls.focusout: no
XXkb.controls.two_state: no
XXkb.controls.add_when_start: yes
XXkb.controls.add_when_create: yes
XXkb.controls.add_when_change: no

I have also tried some alternative ways of starting an application on system startup, mentioned here, none worked :\

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 16:07:28)

xaos52

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Can you post the image  files you are using as well. ( I am no graphics guru)

mais

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Can you post the image  files you are using as well. ( I am no graphics guru)

What do you mean? The actual gb.xpm and gr.xpm files? And if yes, how this can help me solve the mentioned problem? (if you just want the images for personal use just use pms, please!)

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 16:46:21)

xaos52

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Yes, please.
I am a graphics newb.

I presume the easiest way would be to  tar up your folder and make the tar file publicly available.

brontosaurusrex

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Could it be some sort of a path problem?
Could you add

which xxkb > /home/user/xxkb.log &

to autostart and see what happens. Another thing I'd try is much longer sleep, perhaps 10.

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2016-03-23 16:50:19)

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mais

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Could it be some sort of a path problem?
Could you add

which xxkb > /home/user/xxkb.log &

to autostart and see what happens. Another thing I'd try is much longer sleep, perhaps 10.

I added this line "which xxkb > /home/mais/xxkb.log &", after the command "(sleep 1s && xxkb) &" and it returned this path -> /usr/bin/xxkb , inside the xxkb.log file.

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 16:54:01)

brontosaurusrex

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Then the path is fine.

Longer sleep?

How is this?

(xxkb > /home/user/xxkb.log 2>&1) &

Last edited by brontosaurusrex (2016-03-23 17:07:02)

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mais

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Then the path is fine. Longer sleep?

YUP thats it!

Thank you brontosaurusrex, and all for your time  (you can mark this as solved).

Last edited by mais (2016-03-23 17:06:29)

brontosaurusrex

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Re: [SOLVED]Failing to start application on system startup

Good, you need to rename the thread to "solved" yourself.

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