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kimchee411 09-27-2004 04:25 PM
Automatically launching programs upon X windows startup
 
What is the file that will allow me to specify commands that will automatically be run when X windows starts? I'm using Fedora Core 2.

scuzzman 09-27-2004 04:26 PM
What WM/DE do you use?
For KDE, go to you KDE control Center
Session Manager
Startt with saved session

then:
open all programs you want ot immediately start, and go to your "K" button -> Save Session

kimchee411 09-27-2004 04:31 PM
Quote:
Originally posted by scuzzman
What WM/DE do you use?
For KDE, go to you KDE control Center
Session Manager
Startt with saved session

then:
open all programs you want ot immediately start, and go to your "K" button -> Save Session
I'm using Metacity on Gnome. I'd prefer to do it the old school way, by editing the configuration file myself :) But also knowing how to do it through say, gconf-editor, if that's the way, would be cool too.

scuzzman 09-27-2004 04:46 PM
Might wanna check out this thread, may prove useful.
I don't use Gnome - I use KDE 3.2
but look for a .gnome folder and open all config files in there... may see something. (Guessing at this point)

kimchee411 09-27-2004 07:13 PM
I don't see anything in ~/.gnome/ that does it... :(

kimchee411 09-29-2004 01:31 AM
BUMP... wow, no replies. Thought it would be an easy one...

Tinkster 09-29-2004 01:38 AM
Well ... if all else fails:

just create a ~/.xinitrc (or ~/.xsession depending on
how you start X [via session-manager or startx]) and
start the things you want to run within the gnome-session
before you start gnome...

E.g. (I use xdm, so here's my .xsession)
Code:
/usr/local/bin/tpb&
xscreensaver&
exec /usr/local/bin/fluxbox
You'd obviously want to replace the
exec fluxbox
line with whatever starts Gnome.


Cheers,
Tink

kimchee411 10-19-2004 02:43 AM
Figured this out, for future reference. It can be done in Gnome with gnome-session-properties


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