Hi:
Iam trying make my computer with Fedora core 5 to run a program automatically right after logging in ,any body have an idea?

Thanks in advance;
Jonny

Are you logging into KDE, GNOME or the CLI?

Hi:
Iam using Gnome .

Thank you for your reply.

Hello Jonnyhashem,

You can do this one of to ways you can have init start the program for you by doing the following:

# who -r
run-level 5 2008-02-02 15:13 last=S
^^^^^^^^^^^ <- this tells you your current run level that you are in while you are in regular startup mode.

So if your who -r comes back as 5 then you will need to go to

cd /etc/rc5.d

Then in that did you will see several files that start with an S and K the S is for a start script and the K if for a kill script
you can look at them to see how the are formed really strait forward from a shell scritpitng point of view. So you will just need to create one of each for you prorgram and it will start and stop each time the run level is for run level 5 if you need for it to be at other run levels then you will go to the rc#.d dir and just copy your K and S scripts.

The other way which I have see several people do it is to just added the name of your program to their /home/<username>/.bash_profile
then just have it start that way because the shell will run the program for you if it is in the .bash_profile.

I would go with using init since that is really what its design to do.

To make a program run when you log in, simply make a link to it in the directory
~/.config/autostart

(~ means /home/<your username>/)
An example is have a file browser go to ~/.config/autostart then click on (in the gnome menu) Applications/Accessories and drag a menu item into that folder.