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jonathanbrickman0000:
I am checking feasibility of converting the PC TSC project ( http://pctsc.ponderworthy.org ) to Tiny Core, and have one question:  if I wanted to make a custom Tiny Core setup which would always boot directly into a certain GUI app, with no X desktop, what would be the best route?  rc.S?  ~/tc/.profile?  Other?

J.E.B.

SamK:

--- Quote from: jonathanbrickman0000 on September 26, 2010, 01:10:02 PM ---...boot directly into a certain GUI app...

--- End quote ---
A way is described in the FAQ. If I recall correctly it requires at least TC3.1.  Have a look here:
http://www.tinycorelinux.com/faq.html#appstart
   

jonathanbrickman0000:
That will do very nicely, thanks.  One more question:  Is there a recommended way to suppress the default desktop, and run just my little X app (rdesktop in a script)?  I didn't find those items in ~/.xsession, and I'd like to be as well-behaved as possible.  The idea is to hopefully replace one file in such a way that if the user flips to a vc he/she can log in and run a script which brings the Tiny Core back to default running.

tinypoodle:
I suspect what you mean by

--- Code: ---suppress the default desktop
--- End code ---
might be to start X with a single X app, but without any window manager.

This should be possible, but exact syntax to do it may depend on the X server used.

jonathanbrickman0000:
Yup, that's exactly it.  I believe it was at the bottom of ~/.profile that I saw "startx", and that could be a really good jumping-off point for this, but I thought I would ask before assuming, I have come to really appreciate the Tiny Core community.

J.E.B.

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