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| -rw-r--r-- | Makefile.am | 3 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | gtk-broadway-run.sh | 28 |
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diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am index e956878..2393eb1 100644 --- a/Makefile.am +++ b/Makefile.am @@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ dist_scitecodata_DATA = fallback.teco_ini EXTRA_DIST = README TODO +# Used in many packaging recipes +dist_noinst_SCRIPTS = gtk-broadway-run.sh + if INTERFACE_GTK # Only the lower resolution PNG icons are installed as they are # required by the GTK UI. diff --git a/gtk-broadway-run.sh b/gtk-broadway-run.sh new file mode 100755 index 0000000..9b20f7b --- /dev/null +++ b/gtk-broadway-run.sh @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# ./gtk-broadway-run.sh PROGRAM ARGS... +# Starts PROGRAM under Gtk with the Broadway backend. +# +# This is meant as a more reliable replacement to xvfb-run +# when building SciTECO on headless systems. +# WARNING: This will block indefinitely when letting +# SciTECO (or any Gtk app) start up to its UI. +set -e + +export GDK_BACKEND=broadway + +# mktemp would create the file already +BROADWAY_SOCKET=/tmp/gtk-broadway.sock.$$ + +broadwayd --unixsocket $BROADWAY_SOCKET >/dev/null & +BROADWAY_PID=$! +trap "kill $BROADWAY_PID; rm -f $BROADWAY_SOCKET" EXIT + +# Wait for broadway to start up. +# broadwayd might also die in the meantime. +while kill -0 $BROADWAY_PID >/dev/null && [ ! -S $BROADWAY_SOCKET ]; do + # `sleep 0.1` might be unportable. + sleep 0.1 || sleep 1 +done + +# We don't exec, so we can still clean up with the trap afterwards. +"$@" |