Custom service file F18 needs Display=:0 Looking for pointers

Michael Cronenworth mike at cchtml.com
Fri May 31 17:23:15 UTC 2013


On 05/31/2013 10:51 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> Having seen this in Xfce list: (non PK update notifier)
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/xfce/2013-May/001886.html
>
> The pythonscript in the link does work.
> I figured could make a .service file for it.
> (as a learning challenge)

A graphical process won't be able to run until X is up.

You need to add your process to your ~/.config/autostart directory. Make
a .desktop file (with the appropriate syntax) and drop it in there. When
you log in to your desktop session XFCE will kick off your process.


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