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easystroke package

How to start without gui?

Asked by Jellygoose

Hi!

I read in the other question that it is supposed to be the default behavior but this doesn't seem to be the case.
Since the no-gui option doesn't exist how does one get easystroke to start in the background without the need to press hide everytime on start-up ?

-Jellygoose

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Vihar (vmankov) said : 		#1

No, the default behavior is to launch Ubuntu with Graphic User Interface because of the Ubuntu strategy to be user friendly at it's maximum. One has to know a lot for the reason to reproduce in command line the skills given in GUI.

And yes, command line gives the maximum power of Linux to squeese the best of your machine or to totally screw it up.

You can always go to command line regime by Applications-->Accessories-->Terminal or choosing console with Ctrl+Alt+F2 - F6. There you can get root privileges with "sudo" or logging as a root. To go back to GUI from a console press Alt-F7.

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) said : 		#2

I've never seen this behavior before. Which version of Ubuntu and easystroke are you using?

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Jellygoose (plastdunk) said : 		#3

Im running linux mint which is "Based on Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Linux 2.6.28, Gnome 2.26".

easystroke: 0.4.1.1-0ubunto1 (jaunty).

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Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) said : 		#4

The only explanation for this that I can think of is that there's some gtk version out there that doesn't hide windows by default. I've added code to git that explicitely hides the gui unless the --show-gui (-g) option is used.

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Best Tom Jaeger (thjaeger) said : 		#5

Did you disable the tray icon? In this case, easystroke will start with the config window open, so that the user won't lock themselves out -- unless you define an action of type Misc..Show/Hide. So this might be all you need to do.

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Jellygoose (plastdunk) said : 		#6

! that was the problem.

thanks.

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Jellygoose (plastdunk) said : 		#7

Thanks Tom Jaeger, that solved my question.