Autostart of GTK application failing

Question

I have a GTK application that runs perfectly when run from the desktop or a terminal window.

I created a myprog.desktop file in ~/.config/autostart:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MyName
Path=~/...blah../MyApp
Exec=./myapp
NoDisplay=false
Hidden=false
X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=true

This creates an icon which I can double-click, and the code runs. However it does not run when the window manager starts, as intended. I get the error

XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server ":0"

in ~/.xsession-errors.old

Any ideas what is happening here? Platform is Beaglebone Black, revision C (Debian).

have you considered using your https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc? — serv-inc, May 11 '15 at 12:38
Yes, tried sleeping. It causes the entire device to freeze when the application runs. Hard to understand why, nothing in the log, and because it's in a startup file is awkward to fix! — Julian Gold, May 12 '15 at 14:44
It freezes because it blocks the startup procedure. You would need to add `(sleep 5; ./myapp) &`, that is, background it. — serv-inc, May 12 '15 at 14:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '15 at 15:45

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Running the code from .xsessionrc would appear to work nicely. I run it as /usr/bin/sudo ./myapp - just to be sure!

answered May 12 '15 at 15:45

Julian Gold

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don't use `sudo` *just to be sure*. use it only if you need super-user priviliges; if you don't know, don't use it. – umläute May 18 '15 at 07:54

Autostart of GTK application failing

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