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bond

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2009-05-05

Posts: 62

xbmc-addon-steam-launcher

Hi All,

I've written a package to run steam standalone; https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/steam-standalone/

which seems to work reasonably well (launching with systemctl start steam-standalone). I'd prefer to be moving all of this into systemd --user, but am waiting on dbus activation.

The HTPC I run is launching xbmc on startup, and I want to be able to switch to steam from within xbmc.

I've written another package; https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xbmc … -launcher/

The main switching service is;

[Unit]
Description=switch from xbmc-standalone to steam-standalone
After=network.target
BindsTo=steam-standalone.service
Conflicts=xbmc.service

[Service]
RemainAfterExit=yes
Type=oneshot
ExecStart=/usr/bin/sleep 2
ExecStopPost=/usr/bin/systemctl start xbmc.service

However there is issues with the timing. steam-standalone.service is being launched before xbmc.service has fully closed (which prevents steam-standalone from starting an x session)

One way to fix this would be to introduce some sleep in ExecStartPre within steam-standalone (but would prefer to avoid this)
Another might be to add some kind of wait/check in ExecStartPre within steam-standalone to startx when appropriate
However I would prefer to just be able to delay the BindsTo?

I'm using BindsTo such that when steam-standalone does exit (steam closed internally) steam-switcher.service is also ended, such that ExecStopPost is called.

any recommendations?