No .Xdefaults, .xsession, .xinitrc

madchmst82 · 09-23-2003, 03:48 PM

I'm using Redhat 9 and I've been in the process of trying to get Fluxbox configured, mainly the aterm and transparency. All the tutorials, helps, and answers I see to questions I have deal with editing files like .Xdefaults, .xsession, .xinitrc, etc, which I dont have. And when I do create them, they appear not to do anything. Are there different files i'm suppose to edit in Redhat, or are they located somewhere other than the home directory? Thanks

joki · 09-23-2003, 06:26 PM

if you're using KDE then the directory ~/.kde/Autostart/ maybe helps you.
you can put there any executable shell-script.

Skyline · 09-23-2003, 06:50 PM

Incidentally a nice one with ~/.kde/Autostart is a symlink from an application in /usr/bin to have the application start when the desktop has loaded - for example

ln -s /usr/bin/kspread /home/<username>/.kde/Autostart

kspread starts automatically as required when kde loads.

madchmst82 · 09-23-2003, 07:05 PM

Sorry, forgot to mention that I dont have kde, just gnome.