start a program at boot

[Preston Kutzner]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:21:16 +1000
Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 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.

If you have other programs that you wish to start when logging into Gnome, you can go to

System -> Preferences -> Sessions-> Startup Programs and add a command in there to start the application you wish.  This lets you arbitrarily add applications without having to have them running first.

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