<html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /></head><body style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana"> On Thursday 30 Jun 2005 18:58, Mustafa Abbasi wrote: > i wanted to setup azureus and firefox to start whenever i start > gnome. like startup in windows. > any idea how to do this in ubuntu. > it can be done in fedora's gnome but i can't figure out how to do it > in ubuntu I think I can help :-) You need to set up a local file as in other Linux distributions, but this is not usually present in Debian installations. The actual web page to do this is at: http://www.desktop-linux.net/debian-rclocal.htm but I note that the page is down at the moment, so here is a copy of the text from my archives: "Debian Rc.local Equivalent In many distributions you can add commands to run certain programs at the end of the boot process after all system services have been started into the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file, however there is no such file in a Debian system. Here is the way to accomplish the same thing the debian way: 1) Make a file called /etc/init.d/local with a text editor. This file is a script so it should always start with the following line: #! /bin/sh 2) Next, for example I have an always on cable modem and I want to use rdate to update the system time to atomic clock time at startup, so I add the following command to the file: rdate -s clock-1.cs.cmu.edu && hwclock --systohc (The rdate command updates your system time, then the hwclock command updates the bios clock) 3) Make this file executable with: chmod +x /etc/init.d/local 4) Next, link the new local file by running: update-rc.d local defaults 80" (omitting the quotes) Disclaimer: I have not used this with Ubuntu or Kubuntu (yet) so use with care, but it works well with Libranet! -- Graham </body></html>