ahkok/xorg-launch-helper

A wrapper in C to make XOrg function as a proper systemd unit.

xorg-launch-helper's Issues

Gated/interactive launch

Rather than start immediately, I'd be interested in a mode that requires some kind of external trigger before starting. Systemd units can continue to await xorg-launch-helper, but xorg-launch-helper will itself delay kick off until triggered to really start.

I'm not sure quite what my use case is now- how eventually triggering will happen- but I know I'd like user sessions that automatically start on bootup for a wide variety of users, and some ability to kick off a remote desktop after the fact, and have the remaining X-dependent session load up then. Some kind of external program would be responsible for signalling xorg-launch-helper that now is really the time to start.

Possible trigger mechanisms: signals, await a signal on a pipe, a short lived dbus server with a "begin" method that terminates after signal.

Broken with xorg-server 1.16.0

Jul 24 19:57:26 jenny systemd[312]: Starting Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:57:26 jenny xorg-launch-helper[2035]: Starting Xorg server with: "/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp -noreset vt1"
Jul 24 19:57:26 jenny xorg-launch-helper[2035]: /usr/bin/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
Jul 24 19:57:36 jenny systemd[312]: xorg.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 24 19:57:36 jenny systemd[312]: Failed to start Xorg server launch helper.
Jul 24 19:57:36 jenny systemd[312]: Unit xorg.service entered failed state.
Jul 24 19:57:46 jenny systemd[312]: xorg.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 24 19:57:46 jenny systemd[312]: Stopping Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:57:46 jenny systemd[312]: Starting Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:57:46 jenny xorg-launch-helper[2359]: Starting Xorg server with: "/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp -noreset vt1"
Jul 24 19:57:46 jenny xorg-launch-helper[2359]: /usr/bin/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
Jul 24 19:57:56 jenny systemd[312]: xorg.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 24 19:57:56 jenny systemd[312]: Failed to start Xorg server launch helper.
Jul 24 19:57:56 jenny systemd[312]: Unit xorg.service entered failed state.
Jul 24 19:58:07 jenny systemd[312]: xorg.service holdoff time over, scheduling restart.
Jul 24 19:58:07 jenny systemd[312]: Stopping Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:58:07 jenny systemd[312]: Starting Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:58:07 jenny xorg-launch-helper[4947]: Starting Xorg server with: "/usr/bin/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp -noreset vt1"
Jul 24 19:58:07 jenny xorg-launch-helper[4947]: /usr/bin/Xorg.wrap: Only console users are allowed to run the X server
Jul 24 19:58:17 jenny systemd[312]: xorg.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 24 19:58:17 jenny systemd[312]: Failed to start Xorg server launch helper.
Jul 24 19:58:17 jenny systemd[312]: Unit xorg.service entered failed state.
Jul 24 19:58:26 jenny systemd[312]: Stopping Xorg server launch helper...
Jul 24 19:58:26 jenny systemd[312]: Stopped Xorg server launch helper.

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