I placed a call to a bash script in my ~/.profile.
The script executes a CLI program to dim my screen at login. However, Gnome doesn't continue to log me in to my standard desktop after running the script.
Is there a way to make the ~/.profile script call non-blocking? I'm happy to provide more details that might help you answer this. My distro is Linux Mint.
Edit
Contents of .profile.
# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.
# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
#umask 022
# Me
bash /home/eoin/repos/scripts/autostart.sh
# if running bash
if [ -n "$BASH_VERSION" ]; then
# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f "$HOME/.bashrc" ]; then
. "$HOME/.bashrc"
fi
fi
# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
fi
And my script /home/eoin/repos/scripts/autostart.sh:
#!/bin/bash
bash ~/repos/scripts/redshift/redshift.sh
Which in turn calls another script :-P
#!/bin/bash
redshift -v
