Gated/interactive launch

[rektide]

Rather than start immediately, I'd be interested in a mode that requires some kind of external trigger before starting. Systemd units can continue to await xorg-launch-helper, but xorg-launch-helper will itself delay kick off until triggered to really start.

I'm not sure quite what my use case is now- how eventually triggering will happen- but I know I'd like user sessions that automatically start on bootup for a wide variety of users, and some ability to kick off a remote desktop after the fact, and have the remaining X-dependent session load up then. Some kind of external program would be responsible for signalling xorg-launch-helper that now is really the time to start.

Possible trigger mechanisms: signals, await a signal on a pipe, a short lived dbus server with a "begin" method that terminates after signal.

[sofar]

didn't catch your note until now.

yes, ultimately we want the system to tell us "we're now ready for a graphical logon" and not us telling the systemt that.