X server startup

[Guest mahiles]

How do I start xbindkeys when the x server starts?

 

Thanks.

[static]

ummm... are you trying to configure your multimedia keys on your k/b? I was under the impression xbindkeys runs anyway! Well, if it doesn't, you would add "xbindkeys" to the end of your ~/.xinitrc (where ~ is /home/mahiles, you can just type ~)

$ echo xbindkeys >> ~/.xinitrc

[bvc]

What wm/DE do you use?

[Guest mahiles]

It doesn't run on its own and sorry but I didn't understand that last post :s newbie here..

[scoopy]

bvc is asking "Are you running KDE, Gnome, or something else?"

Window Manager

Desktop Environment

[Guest mahiles]

lol thx.. I'm running kde..

[bvc]

If you use startx from init 3 then static's suggestion if perfect, though I've never used 'echo' b4, I'm sure that's fine.

 

Otherwise, kde uses an Autostart dir in /home/user_name/.kde

http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...ghlight=numlock

[Guest mahiles]

I tried what static said and then the x server wouldn't start at all..

 

As for that other post I don't understand what to do there either :?

[tyme]

echo just prints out whatever follows it (type echo bob and it'll print out bob)

 

tho static's suggestion is slightly off, i believe he meant:

echo xbindkeys > ~/.xinitrc

(one > not two)

 

as bvc mentioned, this will only help if you are starting x from a text login with the command "startx"

 

otherwise, you want to open up a file /home/yourusername/.kde called Autostart and put xbindkeys in there.

 

or, to use statics example, do:

echo xbindkeys > ~/.kde/Autostart

[Guest mahiles]

If I do the 1st one of those 2 suggestions then the x server won't start and I can't find an Autostart file just a directory.

[bvc]

Acually Autostart is a dir, not a file. A script/file like, or for that matter .xinitrc itself can be put in the Autostart dir. Anything in the Autostart dir *cough* autostarts :wink:

 

I was in such a hurry I didn't comprehend what static was echoing :lol: Also keep in mind that if you already have (example) an ~/.xinitrc that has;

 

#!/bin/bash

exec startkde

 

in it, and you do

echo xbindkeys > ~/.xinitrc

 

.xinitrc will now only have

xbindkeys

in it.

 

But echo is good for a new file, or if you know everything that's in a file.

[tyme]

ok, so if Autostart is a dir, we can do:

ln -s /usr/bin/xbindkeys ~/.kde/Autostart/xbindkeys

assuming xbindkeys is in /usr/bin (I don't use KDE so I didn't know it was a dir ;-) )

[bvc]

I'd also bet that you can symlink to it 8) think? maybe? try it (as user)

 

ln -s /usr/bin/xbindkeys ~/.kde/Autostart/xbindkeys

 

(if /usr/bin is the correct path to xbindkeys)

[tyme]

great minds think alike.

 

as for the echo command, static was right. i wasn't thinking straight :)

[bvc]

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