How to set default nice level for an application

[Luis Paulo]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 05:37, Matthias Andersson
<matthias.andersson at pp1.inet.fi> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I want to make thunderbird always start with a nice level of 20 instead
> of the default 0. What is the easiest way of achieving this?
>
> I had a look at /etc/security/limits.conf which was mentioned in some
> forum posts but that didn't really serve this purpose.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias

Why not the obvious? Just run
$ nice -n 20 thunderbird