On 5/13/2015 8:30 AM, Israel wrote:
Hi John
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On 05/09/2015 03:47 PM, John Hupp wrote:
..
Here is an improved upstart job (/etc/init/pcmanfm-ltsp.conf). The
script code is tested as working when run manually as a script, but it
was not effective as an upstart job. Perhaps environment variables
like $HOME are not available to upstart jobs even though this one
doesn't run until after the desktop session has started and $HOME
should be defined at that point.
You could try setting something like:
MY_HOME=$(xdg-user-dir HOME)
sed -i 's/mount_removable=0/mount_removable=1/'
"$MY_HOME/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf"
You could also save the script as a file in your $PATH (like /usr/bin)
and use:
exec scriptname
in your conf file
But this is maybe more of a style preference thing :)
But given that the code works as a script, I can probably get what I
want by setting that up with a desktop shortcut in an autostarting
location.
# Edit pcmanfm Volume Management preferences at startup
#
# Set prefs based on whether the machine is a thin client or a
server/fat client
description "Edit pcmanfm Volume Management preferences based on
machine type"
start on desktop-session-start
script
# test for a fat client:
if [[ $(hostname | grep 'ltsp') == ltsp* ]]; then
sed -i 's/mount_removable=0/mount_removable=1/'
"$HOME/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf"
# test for a thin client:
elif [ -n "$LTSP_CLIENT" ]; then
sed -i 's/mount_removable=0/mount_removable=0/'
"$HOME/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf"
# machine must be the server
else
sed -i 's/mount_removable=0/mount_removable=1/'
"$HOME/.config/pcmanfm/lubuntu/pcmanfm.conf"
fi
end script
Hi, Israel. Interesting thoughts. Someone on the Ubuntu list thought
that the upstart approach probably wouldn't work because 1) $HOME is not
part of the upstart environment (which I believe is true, and which you
would attempt to work around), and 2) the upstart job would run as root,
so even if available, $HOME wouldn't have the value I wanted. If #2 is
correct, then I imagine 'xdg-user-dir HOME' likewise would not return
the value I wanted.
But he did acknowledge that he was not highly knowledgeable about
upstart, so maybe #2 is suspect.
In any case, when the upstart job was not working for me, I bolted and
used a script + autostarting desktop shortcut, which did work.
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