Make software start on startup

Peanutman · 08-12-2005, 06:44 AM

I have a few scripts I would like to run automaticly after I logged into Gnome.
They are in this format:
"/root/gmail-notify-1.6/notifier.py"

I read about xinitrc, so I added:
exec /root/gmail-notify-1.6/notifier.py &

But it's having no effect at all... nothing happens

Can anyone help me?
I'm using Fedora Core 4 with GNOME, but I don't think this matters.

Reinout,

cdhgee · 08-12-2005, 06:55 AM

Try putting the commands in .xsession instead. Also make sure that whichever file you're using (.xsession or .xinitrc) has execute permissions, i.e. if you do ls -al it should appear with permissions -rwxr-xr-x or something similar - but the 'x's are the important bit.