Starting program on startup with gdm and fluxbox?

95se · 03-21-2004, 04:37 PM

Quick question. My friend that runs linux uses GDM. I want to startup idesk when fluxbox starts. I login into a text screen, so I just use .xinitrc, but I have no idea what to do with gdm. I read that xdm just runs ~/.xsession, so I tried that but no go. Anyone know what I should do?

csvke · 03-21-2004, 04:56 PM

go to
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions
create a file called
Fluxbox
Inside the file, write a simple script like
exec fluxbox

restart.
then hopefully you will have a choice in the menu of gdm for fluxbox.

I hope it helps.

95se · 03-21-2004, 04:59 PM

Thanks, so I can just add idesk & at the end then.

Hangdog42 · 03-21-2004, 05:50 PM

If you are using one of the development versions of fluxbox (.9x), you can add idesk to the ~/.fluxbox/apps file. Check out the fluxbox documentation for the apps file syntax

95se · 03-22-2004, 12:47 PM

Na, 0.1.14, what I ended up doing was going into /etc/X11/gdm/Xsession . In there it had all the different wm you could start, so for the fluxbox command i just added idesk & right before it, worked like a charm