Start apps when X11 starts.

almost000 · 07-29-2007, 04:19 AM

I chat a lot online and want pidgin to start when I start X11. I ask casue I boot up by init 3 not 5 were I can just tell cron to do it at start up. I do it that way casue this it the gateway.

bathory · 07-29-2007, 09:37 AM

If you want a program to start when you start X, then you can put it in your ~/.xinitrc:

Code:

/path/to/pidgin &

lugoteehalt · 07-30-2007, 06:44 AM

Alternatively use Enlightenment as your window manager and use its 'remember' facility.

There is also an X session manager which you probably already have installed.

almost000 · 07-31-2007, 04:59 PM

I tryied that and it kill x11 till I remove that file. also I did not hav that file in the frist place. one think that was cool if you just add it with out the "&" it just load teh IM client. thank you. I am not sure how install Enlightenment. but thank you for tell it.

lugoteehalt · 08-01-2007, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by almost000

I tryied that and it kill x11 till I remove that file. also I did not hav that file in the frist place. one think that was cool if you just add it with out the "&" it just load teh IM client. thank you. I am not sure how install Enlightenment. but thank you for tell it.

xinitrc, could also use .xsession, is a special file. Loosely X only keeps running if the program it is executing in this file is running. So, to illustrate:

Code:

! pigin &
! pulseaudio &
! enlightenment

would do it - when you close Enlightenment X stops too. (The ! is just another way of doing exec, I think.)

Put in a window manager of your choice.

Hope helps.

almost000 · 09-20-2007, 05:57 PM

I have know Idea but that means be never the less I found a GUI in gome
thank you for your help.

I just loaded gnome-session-properties and it had a startup tab and its per user