Where to add X startup actions?

[David Abrahams]

"Michael R. Head" <burner at suppressingfire.org> writes:

> On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 14:33 -0400, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I want to do a few things when X starts up, namely:
>> 
>>   xhost +local:acpid
>> 
>> and also, enable any attached monitors and extend my desktop.  Where
>> should I put these commands?  They're not gnome-specific, so I'd
>> rather not stick them in something that will only be run by gdm.
>
> There are a few places it could be put.
>
> ~/.gnomerc
> ~/.xinitrc
> ~/.xsession
> /etc/X11/Xsession.d/
>
> .gnomerc and .xsession are run by the default Ubuntu startup, as well as
> any scripts put into /etc/X11/Xsession.d

Since I wanted this behavior machine-wide, I went with the latter.
Thanks; it worked great!

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Dave Abrahams
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