On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:52:15AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:08:16 +0000 Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > X-related junk is there was because I was using a headless server and > > xinit directly to launch gimp to reproduce the bug. > > I've never done this. Can you share the magic recipe for running an X > app in this way? > The relevant part of the test script is # Build a wrapper script to launch gimp cat > gimp-launch.sh << EOF /usr/bin/gimp -i -b "(mmtests-open-image \"$FILENAME\")" -b "(gimp-quit 0)" > $LOGDIR_RESULTS/gimp-out.1 2>&1 echo \$? > gimp-exit-code EOF chmod u+x gimp-launch.sh $TIME_CMD xinit ./gimp-launch.sh 2> $LOGDIR_RESULTS/time.1 RETVAL=`cat gimp-exit-code` It's clumsy because the application would start with no window manager and looking at it again, it probably was not even necessary because of the -i switch in gimp. Previously when I needed to automate an X app I configured the machine to login automatically, exported the DISPLAY variable in the test script and used wmctrl to detect if an application had a window displayed yet. -- Mel Gorman SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>