[mdlug] Adding a shell script to run after boot.

[Adam Behnke]

googling my issue, should i add 'sleep 3' to the beginning my script?


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:04 AM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, closer...
>
> xsessions error fail on the part of my script that looks for the content
> on usb drives, i think i have some fstab work lol.
>
> ** (xfce4-session:1331): WARNING **: Unable to launch
> "/usr/local/bin/video.sh" (specified by autostart/videowall-1.desktop):
> Failed to execute child process "/usr/local/bin/video.sh" (No such file or
> directory)
> find: `/media/VIDWALL': Permission denied
> find: `/media/VIDWALL': Permission denied
> find: `/media/VIDWALL': Permission denied
> find: `/media/VIDWALL': Permission denied
> find: `/media/VIDWALL': Permission denied
>
>
> just to clear clear, here is the script inside /usr/local/bin/videowall.sh
>
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "scanning drives and creating the playlist"
> find /media/* -type f -iname "*.mp4" > /home/$USER/playlist.txt
> find /media/* -type f -iname "*.avi" >> /home/$USER/playlist.txt
> find /media/* -type f -iname "*.mov" >> /home/$USER/playlist.txt
> find /media/* -type f -iname "*.mpg" >> /home/$USER/playlist.txt
> find /media/* -type f -iname "*.ogg" >> /home/$USER/playlist.txt
> echo "--------------------------"
> echo "launching playlist"
> mplayer -vo xv -fs -stop-xscreensaver -loop 0 -zoom -playlist
> /home/$USER/playlist.txt
>
>
> is this an fstab issue or an auto start config file issue?
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, the spec link was for menu structures, not menu file entries.  This
>> is the correct one:
>> http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Jeff Hanson <jhansonxi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > You need an XDG/fdo menu entry (*.desktop) file in the
>> ~/.config/autostart
>> > directory.
>> >
>> > http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/menu-spec-1.0.html
>> >
>> > Create a file named "myvideoscript.desktop" or similar and add to it:
>> >
>> > [Desktop Entry]
>> > Encoding=UTF-8
>> > Icon=video-display
>> > Name=Autoplay videos
>> > Comment=Start videos
>> > Exec=/usr/local/bin/myscript
>> > Terminal=false
>> > Type=Application
>> > Categories=Video;
>> > StartupNotify=false
>> >
>> > Put your script in /usr/local/bin and make it executable.  Should start
>> > automatically at login.  If it doesn't then check ~/.xsession-errors for
>> > error messages.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Adam Behnke <abehnke at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Does anyone have advise on adding a script to run after boot. I'm
>> making
>> >> this script to play videos on a loop. I made a simple script and it
>> runs
>> >> great in terminal, but adding it to ubuntu sessions/startup does do
>> >> anything. Adding it to rc.local seems to fail on launching mplayer
>> before
>> >> the system if fully booted.
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