Application run on boot?? [solved]

[Bellies]

Hey,

 

I'm running Mandrake 10.0 and everything is going well of course.

I am using Ksmoothdock on KDE 3.2 but cannot get it to run on boot.

There is no option within the Ksmoothdock config and I have edited etc/rc.local with the following line:

/usr/bin/ksmoothdock start &

but no luck. I am sure there is something simple I am missing.

 

Thanks

[daniewicz]

Check /var/log/messages for error messages during booting. There may be a hint there to what the problem is.

[Gowator]

Yep it doesn't have permission to run unless you log in as root.

Even so I doubt this will work since your starting it before X.

 

I would imagine what you want is to run it when a user logs in?

The correct place for this would be in the .kdestart (or similar directory) (im at work but KDE has an autostat dir per user )

[bvc]

if that's a dock for kde in X you need to put it in you home .kde/Autostart dir. We used to use scripts in there but I read last week someone saying to just copy the shortcut to there. I don't use kde and haven't for a while so I don't know.

[inflexion]

bvc got it :)

 

i did that with gaim just put a shortvut in the autostart folder and it works like a charm

[Bellies]

Thanks

 

That sorted that out real quick.

 

Mandrake 10.0 stilll rulz!!