launch xojo desktop app without x-windows

Targets Raspberry Pi
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Hi, finally Xojo for raspberry is here, maybe i can forget python?? : )

Anyway, is there a way to execute Xojo desktop app (with window) from the command line without launch X on Raspberry?

thanks

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You don’t need X-windows on Pi. Just compile your desktop app for Pi and copy it over. Then launch it like you would any Linux app.

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[quote=222622:@Massimo Maioli]Hi, finally Xojo for raspberry is here, maybe i can forget python?? : )

Anyway, is there a way to execute Xojo desktop app (with window) from the command line without launch X on Raspberry?

thanks[/quote]

short answer is no.

desktop apps require Xwindows to draw the windows/controls on the screen.

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[quote=222644:@scott boss]short answer is no.

desktop apps require Xwindows to draw the windows/controls on the screen.[/quote]

?? X-Windows must be built into the Pi OS then?

I launch my app all the time and have never used launchx.

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Xwindows is launched automagically if you have a display. Xwindows is what is behind the GUI you see. Granted it is a striped down version of X.

Linux (and its variations) can’t display a GUI without it.

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OK. Thanks. I was thinking it was an extra framework like when you launch X-Windows on a Mac…

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Thanks all, so if i want make a “kiosk”, i have to launch xojo app on boot (after x is loaded) and make it fullscreen and not quittable

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yes.

If the PI is set to launch to init mode 5 (GUI) then if you set up your app to launch on boot (/etc/init.d/* scripts) then it will start after the GUI (or should).

good luck on your app.

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I have a bunch of tutorials over here.

This is the method to auto load an application. If the application takes time to load, like a kiosk app, you’ll want to ensure the window manager has loaded before your application, or it could potentially suffer a major hard crash…so init is a bad option…

Here is the raspbian method to auto load application upon startup:

http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2014/05/how-to-autostart-apps-in-rasbian-lxde-desktop/

Check out other ‘everything you ever wanted to know about pi’ articles at: :slight_smile:
http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/author/matt/

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thanks, my big problem now is how to hide the taskbar and launch the app fullscreen without the windows button to hide, zoom or close the window.

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set fullscreen propery of the window to true in the ide.
It works on raspberry pi.