auto start program

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On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:02:30 -0600, Charlie Kravetz wrote:

> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 01:01 +1000, Peter Garrett wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:32:26AM -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>> > Andrew Glen-Young wrote:
>> > 
>> > > On 09/10/2007, August <tan.august at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > >> add commands/programs in ~/.bashrc to start when user log in
>> > >> system
>> > > 
>> > > My apologies, I missed the start of this thread. I would like to
>> > > comment that using '~/.bashrc' will run the command whenever the
>> > > user's bash shell is run. If you want to run the command only once
>> > > per session then you should probably use '~/.bash_profile' instead
>> > > (or more accurately - when a login shell is run).
>> > 
>> > or ~/.xsession (once per X session), or KDE has a per-user Autostart
>> > folder and I would have thought Gnome would too.
>> 
>> The equivalent to KDE's Autostart directory is a file, in GNOME - viz.
>> 
>> ~/.gnomerc
>> 
>> You can put commands in that file -  I use it to start the synergy
>> server/client setup I use to mouse from one machine's screen to another
>> on the network ( desktop <-> laptop , for example).
>> 
>> For fluxbox I use ~/.xsession as you say - but this only works if you
>> either choose the "default session" option in GDM or set up your own
>> fluxbox.desktop file in /usr/share/xsessions/  ( I do the latter )
>> 
>> For GUI apps with GNOME, it is easier to simply save the session,
>> assuming the app concerned understands GNOME's session management.
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
> Am I right that any of these are set per user? By placing commands in
> /etc/gdm/PostLogin/Default for GNOME, the command is run at login for
> any user logging in to the system. Seems like this will save some work
> on multi-user systems?
> 
> 
The preferred method for autostarting applications in freedesktop.org
standards-compliant desktop environments (like Gnome and KDE) is to place
an application's desktop configuration file (application_name.desktop) in
the directory /etc/xdg/autostart for system-wide usage, or in
~/.config/autostart for per-user settings. For setting an application to
autostart on an individual user basis in Gnome, you would open
gnome-session-properties by navigating to System->Preferences->Sessions
and adding a path to the application to be autostarted.

For more information on the freedesktop.org desktop standards go here:

http://standards.freedesktop.org

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