File Startup On Xwindow

[Guest HardNova]

OK guys and Gals i need a little bit of help here. i have for the longest time been trying to figure out how to have mandrake start loading up a couple of programs once the xwindows interface starts up.. Can someone please help my on this.. the program i'm trying to have started is called pureftp.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Marshall

[spiedra]

If you are booting into a WM, which one? For instanace, in KDE you have an autostart folder in the ~/.kde directory. You create a link to the program you want to execute within that directory and that will run the program at boot into KDE. In Fluxbox, you have an autostart script where you enter the name of the program you want to launch and it will run it when it boots into Fluxbox. You can also enter the program in .xinitrc in the /home directory. Some people like myself prefer the autostart scripts and others the .xinitrc script.

[bvc]

Here's a good link about it

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.ph...ghlight=fluxbox

 

My ~/.xinitrc

#!/bin/bash

#start programs

(sleep 1; gkrellm -w) &

(sleep2 ; play ~/sounds/Select.wav & exit) &

(sleep 4; gnome-theme-properties) &

(sleep 8; rox -l=MyPanel) &

enable_X11_numlock &

#start connection

(sleep 12; /home/ppp/7853) &

 

#Screen

(sleep 10; xset s off s noblank dpms 0 0 0) &

 

#start a WM

fluxbox

[spiedra]

You can also check this link which is specific to Flux:

 

http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=690

 

 

My particular autostart.sh script looks like this:

 

wmsetbg --scale ~/.fluxbox/backgrounds/sephiroth.jpg

gkrellm -w &

rox -l=Desktop

#Screen

xset dpms 0 1200 3600 &

[exec] (RoxPanel) {rox -l=Desktop} &

[Guest HardNova]

Thanks for the info on the auto start..

[spiedra]

Not a problem.