[yocto] X11 without a desktop

Burton, Ross ross.burton at intel.com
Mon Aug 5 07:50:18 PDT 2013


On 5 August 2013 15:14, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> I'm running a system roughly based on core-image-sato except
> that I've disabled the matchbox desktop (I only have a single
> application).  Some things still seem to want the desktop
> to be in place though, in particular I don't get a popup
> keyboard on my touch screen until I see this message:
>   Timeout waiting for org.matchbox_project.desktop.Loaded
>
> The problem is that this timeout is quite long - maybe a minute?
>
> How can I fully disable this or adjust the timeout to be shorter?

That's the matchbox-keyboard init script which waits for the desktop
to say it's loaded, easily patched out (the intention was to serialise
the final stages of the boot so the desktop appeared quickly and then
the keyboard loaded in the background).

Ross



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