Re (2): preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-16 Thread peasthope
From: Chris Davies Subject:Re: preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE > Exec=sh -c "LD_PRELOAD... skype" Yes! The script isn't needed. Thanks, ... Peter E. -- Telephone 1 360 450 2132. Shop pages http://carnot.yi.org/ accessible

Re: preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-11 Thread Chris Davies
peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Exec=LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Exec=sh -c "LD_PRELOAD... skype" Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.or

Re: using exec in a script; was "preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE"

2011-03-10 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-10, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > From: Liam O'Toole > Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:32:34 + (UTC) >> ... script to be placed somewhere in the user's path >> such that it won't get clobbered by an official Debian package. >> /usr/local/bin is the place to be. > > Right oh; this trivial sc

using exec in a script; was "preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE"

2011-03-10 Thread peasthope
From: Liam O'Toole Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2011 21:32:34 + (UTC) > ... script to be placed somewhere in the user's path > such that it won't get clobbered by an official Debian package. > /usr/local/bin is the place to be. Right oh; this trivial script works. peter@dalton:~$ ls -l /usr/local/b

Re: Re (2): preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-09, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: >> The script should go in /usr/local/bin/ directly; > > Where is it specified? This sentence in the policy page cited previously > suggests > that dir should be under /usr/local/bin/. "These directories > (/usr/local/*/dir/) > should be removed on pa

Re (2): preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
> The script should go in /usr/local/bin/ directly; Where is it specified? This sentence in the policy page cited previously suggests that dir should be under /usr/local/bin/. "These directories (/usr/local/*/dir/) should be removed on package removal if they are empty." So my previous me

Re: preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-09, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Folk, > > Seems that v4l1compat.so is needed for a USB camera to work for Skype. > So > LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype > given interactively starts skype with a working camera. > > Normally Skype in this system is started by the presence of

preloading a driver for an autostarted application in LXDE

2011-03-09 Thread peasthope
Folk, Seems that v4l1compat.so is needed for a USB camera to work for Skype. So LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype given interactively starts skype with a working camera. Normally Skype in this system is started by the presence of ~/.config/autostart/skype.desktop containing the lin