A Series of Unfortunate Problems (Xgl, 3.4->3.5 upgrade)

[dave s]

On Tuesday 14 Feb 2006 19:43, lordSauron wrote:
> On 2/13/06, Javier <javiermon at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/14/06, lordSauron <lordsauronthegreat at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Instead of restoring the last session, which reincarnates old windows
> > > I don't care about any more - I'd like to just start a new session
> > > every time I log in.  However, I'd LOVE for Katapult and YaKuake to
> > > start automatically.  However, unless they were open in a previous
> > > session that was saved and marked to be restored on login, they won't.
> > >  I don't know where to begin to register a application to run on
> > > startup, but if you can help that'd be awesome.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any help - I really appreciate it and have a good night!
> >
> > IIRC (I'm not using KDE as I'm at work) there's a folder in
> > ~/.kde/Autostart/ where you can add launchers for applications to
> > start when you log in.
>
> Yeah, I found that folder easy enough.  However, there isn't anything
> in there to tell me what kind of whatever I'm searching for to dump in
> there to signify "execute this."  What is a "launcher."  I'm still
> fresh off the Win32 boat, so I'm still miserably stuck in the .exe is
> God world : (

You need to add a simple bash script ie  

#!/bin/sh
gnome-setting-daemon (or whatever app you want to start)

Save it in Autostart, change its permissions to execute by right clicking > 
properties > permissions, log out of KDE & back in and the chosen app should 
start every time.

>
> > You could also log in, launch every app you need. (No windows, just
> > yakuake & katapult) and then save the session.
>
> Sort of a default session?  Where'd I find how to save the session?
> My sessions menu on the desktop toolbar only has "Start New Session"
> "Lock Current & Start New Session" and finally "lsauron: default (:0,
> vt7)".
>
> > Hope this helped.
>
> It did help greatly, but I'm not all the way there just yet.
>
> I'd still love for some information about how to get Xgl to work, and
> how to upgrade from KDE 3.4.3 to the newer version 5.0.  If I want to
> use Xgl, will I need to install XDM and use that instead of KDM?
> That's just another little thought that popped into my head - sorry, I
> get lots of little random thoughts.
>
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