DavidBo
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Where is xinit started at boot?

Tue Mar 10, 2020 12:44 pm

At boot everything is visible until rc.local is executed. Here after my screen is black for 17 seconds until my browser chromium is visible.
I think it has something to do with xinit so where and when is it started?

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  794 tty1     00:00:00 xinit
  795 tty2     00:00:00 Xorg
  804 tty1     00:00:00 .xinitrc
  820 tty1     00:00:00 matchbox-window
Something else.
I killed matchbox-window and thought the display would go black. But it didn't how comes?

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PeterO
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Re: Where is xinit started at boot?

Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:02 pm

That doesn't look like Raspbian, so what are you running ?
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Re: Where is xinit started at boot?

Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:12 pm

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root@raspberrypi:/etc/X11# uname -a
Linux raspberrypi 4.19.66-v7+ #1253 SMP Thu Aug 15 11:49:46 BST 2019 armv7l GNU/Linux

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PeterO
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Re: Where is xinit started at boot?

Tue Mar 10, 2020 1:30 pm

I didn't ask what kernel you are running.

matchbox is not the standard Raspbian window manager.

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Re: Where is xinit started at boot?

Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:05 pm

No it is not the standard display manager it is actual an old manager. But anyway my kiosk setup seems not to use it anyway so I have removed it from /boot/xinitrc and my system is still booting. How can I know which display manager I am using?

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