Start GTK apk based on Python

Question

How to start application based on Python + Glade?

startx python apk.py

is not working. I can run application like Firefox from text mode:

startx firefox

Answer 1

The client argument has some parsing rules that you can find in the man pages for startx and xinit.

Basically, you need to have the client start with a slash or dot. This works:

$ startx /usr/bin/python apk.py

Or the common cheat to use path from env:

$ startx /usr/bin/env python apk.py

If the program can start by itself (correct #! line at start in case of python), you can just

$ startx ./apk.py