I am fairly new to Linux, in general (I do have a little experience). My buddy gave me one of his old crappy dell desktops that was running Windows XP and I decided to make an emulator box out of it. I wanted it to be lightweight, software-wise and have more customizeable gui. So after looking into it, I decided to install Debian (upgraded to Sid) + Fluxbox. I wanted the emulator box to to controlled by a gamepad so I installed Antimicro (keymapping software) to allow me to use the joystick on the gamepad in place of a mouse. I even modified the Fluxbox startup file to run

at startup (which works fine), however it maximizes by default, on startup and covers the screen everytime. For aesthetics, what would I need to so to make the program run in the background, automatically whenever I start Fluxbox?

tl;dr How can I make a program in X start automatically and then hide itself while continuing to run?

Thank you, in advance, for your time!

Check this :
http://fluxbox-wiki.org/index.php?ti...e_startup_file

I think what you are looking for is a way to minimize the application window once the application was started, which cannot be achieved by appending the &

I haven't used fluxbox in a while, but I recall there is a handy feature called fluxbox-remote:

http://fluxbox.org/help/man-fluxbox-remote.php

It first has to be enabled (it's disabled by default because it might have some security implications when working over the network, but from what you described it did not sound this would affect you).

I used this to restart fluxbox after xrandr commands that messed up the display, but it would not surprise me if you could also minimize windows with this... might be worth a try.

That link is actually how I learned how to edit the Fluxbox startup file to run the program. Unfortunately, I still could find nothing on minimizing programs

You can either edit ~/.fluxbox/apps to accomplish your goal, or, from within fluxbox minimize your app, right click on the app in the taskbar>remember>select both minimized and save on close...make sure app remains minimized, and close it from within the taskbar.

For an idea of how /.fluxbox/apps works, you can $man fluxbox-apps, and/or have a look at the file before and after you do it through the gui.

cheers,

Try right-clicking on the desktop, then choose:

fluxbox menu --> Configure --> Toolbar --> Iconbar Mode --> All Windows

You could also right-click on the toolbar itself and choose Iconbar Mode --> All Windows.

The "Icons" group is just all minimized windows.

Sadly, if I fully minimize the program (as opposed to just letting it run behind other programs), it disables the use of gamepad to control the cursor. Maybe I can set the program to auto start, but just in a different workspace!

SOLVED: I ended up learning basic bash scripting and made a script that sends all processes to the background. Then I edited the Fluxbox startup file to run that script

[EDIT]: Much thanks to all of you again, for all of your suggestions!!

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^ Nice! If there's not a t-shirt that reads "Wrote a script for it," there should be.