How to start a custom script with lightdm?

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Hi guys. I installed EnOS barebones and installed bspwm. It running pretty well. But I am struggling to add an autostart script. I installed lightdm and a webkit2-greeter-theme.

I have a option to add script in bspwmrc file but it feels a bit laggy at startup. It doesn’t lag tho but the script runs after bspwm and for a second my screen become blank and then suddenly wallpaper and bar appears. When I used to start it with startx in tty i used .xinitrc file to restore wallpaper and bar. It would show up rightway.

After installing lightdm it is not using .xinitrc and I am struggling to find where I can put my startup script. I just want to start compositor, nitrogen and bar rightaway and for others I can add in bspwmrc.

Tried different ways to I found on the internet but nothing seems working.
Didn’t know where should I post. So I thought I can get help here.

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Move it to /usr/local/bin/script.sh and make it executable:

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/script.sh

Open /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf as root and make these changes in the file and reboot:

[Seat:*] #remove the line which were here

display-setup-script = /usr/local/bin/script.sh
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will try right now. :grinning:

Edit: Didn’t work. It just started up polybar even before lightdm theme.

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@hyper-dot
touch $HOME/.config/bspwm/autoscript.sh
chmod +x $HOME/.config/bspwm/autoscript.sh
nano $HOME/.config/bspwm/autoscript.sh

#!/bin/bash

function run {
  if ! pgrep $1 ;
  then
    $@&
  fi
}

# Wallpaper
nitrogen --restore &

#picom
picom &

# Notifications
/usr/bin/dunst &

# polkit
/usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 &

and in bspwmrc

put this line

#LAUNCHERS
$HOME/.config/bspwm/autoscript.sh

edit:
I have only written
picom nitrogen dunst and polkit
so you can put whatever you want to startup as autostart

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It works.
But not the way I wanted.
It certainly loads little faster than before and starts everything at a time. Even though I can see gray screen before loading for a some milisecond :sweat_smile:.

You have a typo here. It should be autoscript.sh

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yes i just saw it thanks

now i have replaced ssd with eos bspwm
and I use autoscript.sh
started polybar wallpaper picom and some other things very fast
now i want to try with .xinitrc just to see if there is a difference

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Okay. :grinning:

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now i have tried with .xinitrc
i put this line in .xinitrc
nano $HOME/.xinitrc

[ -r ~/.xprofile] &&. ~/.xprofile

nano $HOME/.xprofile

# dunst
dunst -config $HOME/.config/dunst/dunstrc &

# nitrogen
nitrogen --restore &

# picom
picom --experimental-backends --config $HOME/.config/picom.conf &

# polybar
$HOME/.config/bspwm/polybar/launch.sh &

can not feel the difference
but try to see if it works for you

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I also didn’t feel any difference at all.

I think the snappiness was because of loading from tty. It would take time as much it needed and then display the whole thing in a shot.

I will use this one for sure.

It is a better solution.

It will be waste of time to dig into it.

@anon79429890 Thank you for your support. Hope you don’t mind anything. :grinning:

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this is not running as your user and runs as lightdm “user” it will only work for like set up displays with Xorg (aka xrandr script)

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Yes you are right. It might be this one then:

session-setup-script
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session-setup-script = Script to run when starting a user session (runs as root)
will be bad too

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This is a standard xyproblem.
Post what you want to achieve with your script and why.
Then we can advise about how to accomplish this task.

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@petsam I just dropped the idea. :slightly_smiling_face:
I am running it with bspwmrc.

I had stated what i wanted to start. But let it be. I am pretty satisfied with what I got.

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