KDE startup and wifi initialization under Feisty

[Larry Hartman]

I will try this next couple days....looks easy enough for a workaround.

On Saturday 31 March 2007 11:45:59 am Nils Kassube wrote:
> On Friday 30 March 2007 02:15, Larry Hartman wrote:
> > I need to tweak a setting.
> >
> > When I log into KDE Korn, KWeather, Kopete, and Akregator all
> > initialize prior to KNetworkmanager, causing multiple annoying advisory
> > boxes to appear with messages like "unknown host" etc.  KNetworkmanager
> > does work, I just need to make this application first in sequence
> > compared to the other internet-based applications.  Can anyone advise?
> >
> > Larry
>
> You could put the script below in the directory $HOME/.kde/Autostart and
> make it executable. The script waits until the network is available and
> then starts the applications needing the network. Please check the
> filenames and paths because I don't have all your applications installed.
>
>
> Nils
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
> until $(/bin/ping -c 1 www.google.com >/dev/null 2>&1); do
>     sleep 1
> done
> /usr/bin/korn &
> /usr/bin/kweather &
> /usr/bin/kopete &
> /usr/bin/akregator &
> exit 0