Want to run my shell script at X startup

[phunni]

I use fluxbox as my window manager and have written a script called autostart.sh which gets run when fluxbox is started.

 

I tried to use a package that was supposed to randomly set my background based on images in a given directory - this didn't work so I wrote a simple Java class to do the same.

 

I then wrote a simple shell script to run it and added this to autostart.sh as something to run when fluxbox is started.

 

Nothing happens. If, however, I run my script in a konsole - all works beautifully. What's going on here?

 

My script is as follows

 

export CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:~/.fluxbox

java BackgroundChanger ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds

[aru]

I don't know anything about java, but if you want a simple shell script to randomly display an image in the fluxbox background, here you are:

 

#! /bin/bash

# wallpaperRandom



wallpaper_cmd="/usr/X11R6/bin/wmsetbg -s "

images_dir="${HOME}/xresources/backgrounds/"

images_filter="*.jpg"



images_list=($(/bin/ls ${images_dir}/${images_filter}))

image=${images_list[$((${RANDOM}%${#images_list[@]}))]}



exec ${wallpaper_cmd} ${image} &

 

The code is extracted from a dedicated function coded in my own fluxboxrc (the equivalent to your autostart.sh); If you are interested I can post it here. To use the 'wallpaperRandom' script just make it executable and call it from your autostart.sh

 

HTH