Re: start program at login

2003-12-10 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: > s. keeling wrote: > > > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is > > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user? > > Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from a severe form of > NIH. Everybody

Re: start program at login

2003-12-10 Thread John L. Fjellstad
s. keeling wrote: > What's the rationale behind this failure to communicate? If this is > annoying to me (a long time user), what's it look like to a new user? Open Source/Free Software developers are suffering from a severe form of NIH. Everybody thinks other people's solutions suck, and their

Re: start program at login

2003-12-09 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from John L. Fjellstad: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Have you tried adding it to your .xinitrc? > > I tried. I forgot to mention that I'm logging in through kdm. As far as I > know, neither local .xsession nor .xinitrc is called during login. Speaking of which, how does this work? I've b

Re: start program at login

2003-12-09 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Chris Everts wrote: > I sometimes use the session for that. Open the app you want to start at > login, save session. Next time WindowMaker you login to wm that app will > start too. You can use "attributes | icon&initial workspace" to sent it > to any workspace you want to. Wouldn't this be windo

Re: start program at login

2003-12-09 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Oliver Elphick wrote: > It should go in ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc (depending on how X is > started). Generally those files are linked. Neither is called when using a (k)dm (forgot to mention that I used that, sorry). I did find a solution though. Looking at the startup procedure, all scripts

Re: start program at login

2003-12-09 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Wayne Topa wrote: > Have you tried adding it to your .xinitrc? I tried. I forgot to mention that I'm logging in through kdm. As far as I know, neither local .xsession nor .xinitrc is called during login. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.f

Re: start program at login

2003-12-08 Thread Wayne Topa
John L. Fjellstad([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I have a program I want to start when I login in X. I know KDE has > something that starts programs at login, but I was looking for something > windowmanager agnostic. Are there any way? > > (Right know I have it in bashrc, but the

Re: start program at login

2003-12-08 Thread Chris Everts
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 01:15, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > I have a program I want to start when I login in X. I know KDE has > something that starts programs at login, but I was looking for something > windowmanager agnostic. Are there any way? I sometimes use the session for that. Open the app yo

Re: start program at login

2003-12-08 Thread Haines Brown
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 00:15, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > > I have a program I want to start when I login in X. > > It should go in ~/.xsession or ~/.xinitrc (depending on how X is > started). Generally those files are linked. Oliver, Do you know how to get a particular app to start up on a pa

Re: start program at login

2003-12-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 00:15, John L. Fjellstad wrote: > I have a program I want to start when I login in X. I know KDE has > something that starts programs at login, but I was looking for something > windowmanager agnostic. Are there any way? > > (Right know I have it in bashrc, but then I have

start program at login

2003-12-07 Thread John L. Fjellstad
I have a program I want to start when I login in X. I know KDE has something that starts programs at login, but I was looking for something windowmanager agnostic. Are there any way? (Right know I have it in bashrc, but then I have to start a terminal each time after login) -- John L. Fjellsta