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Topic: Keep an app running, Want to keep an app running

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rylz

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Posted: Feb. 12 2007,16:16

I've seen it done before, but I want to know:

How do I keep an app running? Mainly, I want a way to keep a program up at all times, even if a user closes it. Here's the situation I'm setting up... I want to use DSL on some small clients in our training room. I have it setup so, upon login, Firefox pops up and goes to our Citrix page. I want to make it so that, if a user closes Firefox, that it will open itself back up.

Or, if someone knows some tricks with Firefox to make it open without the Min/Max/Close buttons, that'd be great, too. My assumption is that users in the training room will not know what to do in DSL. Shoot, they hardly know how to use M$ Windows. :;):

Any help would be appreciated!

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 12 2007,16:46

Probably the simplest and messiest would be:

while true
do
pidof firefox-bin || firefox
sleep 2
done

This doesn't account for Firefox crashes where firefox-bin stays loaded. That seems to be a fairly common event.

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rylz

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Posted: Feb. 12 2007,17:24

OK, I slapped that in .xinitrc and it does what I want to do. But...

I cannot type! Why would the KB be disabled, that doesn't make sense? Here's my current .xinitrc layout (right above "case $DESKTOP):

Code Sample

...
#dillo /usr/share/doc/dsl/getting_started.html &>/dev/null &
torsmo 2>/dev/null &

while true
do
pidof firefox-bix || firefox
sleep 2
done

case $DESKTOP in
fluxbox )
...

I tried putting your code down below the case instance (right after "esac"), but it didn't load at all. Do I need to incorporate it somehow (help would be needed) into the case code?

mikshaw

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Posted: Feb. 12 2007,19:48

I think there's an issue with running Firefox without a window manager. There was a thread several month ago about this applied to a browser kiosk, but i don't remember if a solution was found.

What I would do if I were to use that particular code is put it in a separate script and run the script from xinitrc:
sh /path/to/script &
This would need to be put _above_ the case, so it lets .xinitrc continue on to load the window manager.

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