start a program at boot

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:58:06 -0500
"Tim M" <southern.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do you get a program to startup during the boot or when you log in? For
> my laptop I use gkrellm to keep the fans going but I have to start it from
> the terminal. Which program do I use to start it either as I log on or at
> boot? I have looked at cron but I think that is for running a program at a
> scheduled time.

In GNOME, just save your session with GKrellM running:

System - Preferences - Sessions - Session Options -Save the current
session.

GKrellM will start on next log in - I have it running at all times. When I
run Fluxbox I just add it to my startup script in ~/.xsession - but with
Gnome, saving the session is the easy way.

In KDE you would use ~/.kde/Autostart , if I remember correctly.

-- 
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>