Automatically Start A Program

pafinator11 · 06-07-2006, 07:22 PM

Hello all,
I am currently attempting to start a program after X starts but before gnome-panel starts. Anyone know how I can possibly do this?

Thanks In Advanced,
Paul

RHLinuxGUY · 06-07-2006, 07:54 PM

Have a look at /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc. You may have one located in your home directory: ~/.xinitrc. Google around about going about editing, since I'm not savy with xinitrc. I may look into it now because of this topic.

pafinator11 · 06-08-2006, 06:01 PM

I just cannot seem to figure out how to add the entry correctly to xinitrc and there are not many articles online to help. All I need is the following command to run before the gnome panel.

Quote:

xcompmgr -c -r 5 -l 5 -t 5 -I 0.028 -O 0.03 -f -F -C

RHLinuxGUY · 06-09-2006, 12:39 PM

Try the following "man xinitrc".

pafinator11 · 06-09-2006, 02:57 PM

ok so I had no man for xinitrc. After a little searching I figured out that xinitrc isn't loaded if you are using GDM. Instead of xinitrc it uses xsession. So I figured out how to make xcompmgr start with the desired arguments. However, when I do this, xsession runs that and then does not do any of the commands that come after that until xcompmgr is ended which means that it never loads gnome. How can I make it run that and continue running?

pafinator11 · 06-09-2006, 03:10 PM

ok, I figured it out, I just had to add a "&" after the command, all set, thanks everyone.