[Linux-aus] Booting Into X Application

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="David Brodrick">

> I would like my app to restart if someone shuts it down or it crashes. 
> 
> Maybe I could write a 
> 
> while /bin/true; do ./myapp; done 
> 
> type wrapper scipt and call this from .xsession.

Or you could just rely on X restarting.

> However then I still need to call startx from somewhere. Can I do this
> from an /etc/init.d/ script?

Sure, one good way of doing it is starting X from /etc/inittab, then you can
set it to respawn.

- Jeff

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