[OE-core] xinput-calibrator startup question

Koen Kooi koen at dominion.thruhere.net
Tue Apr 19 18:24:49 UTC 2016


> Op 19 apr. 2016, om 17:12 heeft Jussi Kukkonen <jussi.kukkonen at intel.com> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi Koen,
> 
> I was looking at xinput-calibrator in preparation for bug 9365 "Remove
> xtscal in preference of xinput-calibrator", and I'm wondering if you
> remember the logic behind this commit:
> 
> commit 6464bcd67d10ab9967ac83c27c413c1014be707e
> Author: Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>
> Date:   Wed Apr 30 11:33:23 2014 +0200
> 
>    xinput-calibrator: fix XDG launch
> 
>    In the move from meta-oe to OE-core XDG based launched was dropped
>    without noting it in the commit message, so fix that regression.
> 
>    Gnome-session will now launch the calibrator again.
> 
> The commit installs the app desktop file in the XDG autostart
> directory. But we already have a XSession script for a similar purpose
> -- the result in Sato is that xinput-calibrator runs twice (and I
> would expect that to happen in gnome as well)?
> 
> I'd like to either not install the desktop file or install it in
> applications directory, so please let me know if the reasons for the
> above commit might still be valid.

They are still valid, XDG is still the right place to launch it.


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