In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm starting a Python daemon using SystemStarter, and in it I'm using > appscript to launch an app (Entourage). I get the following error: > > CantLaunchApplicationError: CantLaunchApplicationError -606: Application is > background-only. > > If I start the same daemon from the command-line manually, it works > fine. I'm guessing that some environment variable is not being set by > SystemStarter, which is what makes it "background-only". Can anyone > shed some light on this? I suspect the issue is that processes started by SystemStarter are not "connected" to the windowserver and are running as root so attempts to launch Carbon or Cocoa gui apps will fail. Tech note 2083 has a lot of details about this and the perils of launching gui apps from daemons: <http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2005/tn2083.html> Also note that in 10.4, Apple introduced launchd which is intended to replace the various startup mechanisms including SystemStarter. launchd includes the capability to define system-wide as well as per-user LaunchAgents (triggered by various conditions) and LaunchDaemons. Peter Borg has written a nifty free app, Lingon, to simplify the creating and editing of launchd plists. <http://tuppis.com/lingon/> HTH -- Ned Deily, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
