.xsession problem

Swampy · 08-15-2004, 12:10 PM

I am currently running Mandrake 10.0 Official, KDM as login Manager and using fluxbox as a default desktop.

Everything's running fine, apart from the fact that I want GKrellm to start automatically when I log in.

I created a .xsession file, even tried a .xinitrc, to no avail. I've heard that the graphical login managers ignore ~/.xsession files.

Does anyone know another way to get a file to start up automatically on login, or force the login Manager to read my .xsession file? Any help would be appreciated.

MunterMan · 08-15-2004, 02:56 PM

The file I use for initialisation and auto starting is

/etc/rc.d/rc.local

Swampy · 08-18-2004, 03:10 AM

Hi, Munterman.

I added the following line to the bottom of my rc.local file:

gkrellm -w &

rebooted & nothing happened.

I see that there is a file called

/etc/X11/Xsession

with various options in it. Does anyone know if this is actually used?

MunterMan · 08-18-2004, 08:04 AM

Xsession is a shell script for configuring your xterminal.

In rc.local use the full path of the binary ie

/etc/bin/gkrellm -w &

jonr · 08-18-2004, 10:33 AM

The file I use to start up my X sessions is called

~/.xinitrc

I start all my apps including gkrellm with it, and then IceWM as the last thing. It works fine.

Swampy · 10-08-2004, 09:07 AM

Finally realised what was up. Stupid of me really..

I created a .xsession file, containing the following line:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox

when I logged out, instead of selecting a specific Window Manager as a Session Type, as is my usual, I selected "default"

KDM then read my .xsession file and started fluxbox automatically.

Now that .xsession is definately being read I can now add the apps I want to start to the file.

jonr · 10-08-2004, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Swampy
Finally realised what was up. Stupid of me really..

I created a .xsession file, containing the following line:

exec /usr/X11R6/bin/fluxbox

when I logged out, instead of selecting a specific Window Manager as a Session Type, as is my usual, I selected "default"

KDM then read my .xsession file and started fluxbox automatically.

Now that .xsession is definately being read I can now add the apps I want to start to the file.

Glad your problem is solved...

I don't think you should feel "stupid" though. Dealing with something as complex as a computer operating system, especially one that's open-source and requires piecing together a lot of stuff for yourself (no giant megalithic corporation to hold your hand!

), there's so much opportunity to get something wrong--especially if, as with some of us, we have other things in our lives going on besides Linux!