[PD] respawn PD with gui in Debian

[B. Bogart]

Hey Bart,

Put the PD startup stuff in your ~/.xsession, and configure your display 
manager to use xsession. (eg chosee 'Xclient script' in GDM)

.b.
Bart Koppe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use PD-extended in Debian Lenny, this for a small media-installation.
> After the pc boots and logged into X, i would like pd (with gui) to 
> start automatically.
> I made the script below and wanted to use that in /etc/inittab. It seems 
> to start as root and does not show a gui either.
> 
> The script itself works perfectly ok when I run it myself.
> How can I configure inittab correctly so it runs as user instead of 
> root, and shows the gui to?
> 
> 
> My current inittab entry [to say: I don't know anything about inittab 
> (blush) ]
> TY:23:respawn:/home/abortx/pd-daemon.sh
> 
> the script (pd-daemon.sh)
> #!/bin/sh
> RUNNING=
> export DISPLAY=:0.0
> pd -open /home/abortx/pd/pdp-gem-bridge-3.pd &
> while true; do
> RUNNING=`pidof pd`
> if [ -z $RUNNING ]; then
> pd -open /home/abortx/pd/pdp-gem-bridge-3.pd &
> fi
> sleep 10
> done
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bart
> 
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