How to autolaunch applications with a 1 minute delay??? - Hardware & Software

I’ve been trying for some time to get the [B]REALLY[/B] scraped down Xubuntu 10.04 installation on my server to autolaunch some applications with a delay, after the system is fully started up . Problem is, the built in app autolauncher in Xubuntu doesn’t support delaying certain apps (or atleast not to my knowledge) I guess the solution would be to take advantage of the [I] /etc/init.d [/I] directory somehow, but I have absolutely [B]ZERO[/B] experience with that. And I would also appreciate if anyone can tell me how to do the same with mounting of a filesystem, even though that’s not as important Also I [B]KNOW[/B] using xubuntu for a server isn’t the smartest, but I simply don’t trust myself 100% with CLI/ssh, so I need to GUI along with a VNC server in-case of I need to do something that I could easily screw up using text-based interface. Any useful help will be appreciated :tiphat:

You could write a shell script to launch the apps and then use the built in launcher to start the script. I don't know if this will be the best solution but it will probably work. I guess it should look like this: [code] #!/bin/bash sleep [seconds] [application] [/code]

[QUOTE=drblah;28442090]You could write a shell script to launch the apps and then use the built in launcher to start the script. I don't know if this will be the best solution but it will probably work. I guess it should look like this: [code] #!/bin/bash sleep [seconds] [application] [/code][/QUOTE] Should have mentioned that I've tried that, and I failed. Was actually one of the first things I tried. Why it didn't work I dunno, since I could easily execute the launchers by double clicking them or via CLI.

Did you remember to run chmod a+x to make it executable ?

[QUOTE=drblah;28442287]Did you remember to run chmod a+x to make it executable ?[/QUOTE] yep.

Have you read this? [url]http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=104473[/url] It works for me on Ubuntu. (Yes I know it is almost the same as I just suggested).

I spoke too soon. Turns out if probably was the permission of the folder the launchers were stored in that was the problem. It's always what I least expect that's the source of my problems :downs: [editline]5th March 2011[/editline] Now I just need to figure out of to mount a drive 1 minute after the OS is fully started up.

Why do you need to wait until 1 minute after the OS has started?

[QUOTE=rieda1589;28443000]Why do you need to wait until 1 minute after the OS has started?[/QUOTE] various reasons.

Mounting a partition with a delay could be done the same way you start your applications, except this time you would use the mount command. Make sure that the partition/drive you want to delay is not present in /etc/fstab. If is, you will need to remove the partition's line from fstab to prevent the system from mounting it automatically (without the delay).

[QUOTE=Van-man;28442764]Now I just need to figure out of to mount a drive 1 minute after the OS is fully started up.[/QUOTE] [CODE]wait 60 mount /dev/sdxy[/CODE] x being the volume (b, c, d, etc.), y being the partition (1, 2, 3, etc.) It'll need to be in fstab though, I think.

[QUOTE=Qombat;28450675][CODE]wait 60 mount /dev/sdxy[/CODE] x being the volume (b, c, d, etc.), y being the partition (1, 2, 3, etc.) It'll need to be in fstab though, I think.[/QUOTE] Thanks, though I'm having a dead disk in my RAID array, so my server is offline ATM. Gonna try it in Vbox when i get some time though.