[xubuntu-users] startup applications in correct order

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 12:51:34PM +0100, Wybo Dekker wrote:
> On 2012-02-16 13:46, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > This is an everlasting problem, I've raised it before and not really got
> > any very useful answers.  I did use devilspie for a while but it doesn't
> > *really* do what I (and it looks like a few others) want.
> > 
> > What I have done is to use wmctrl and a 'waitFor' script that waits for
> > a specific command to start so I have a script called from .xprofile
> > that is as follows:-
> 
> This helped a lot! I did not quite understand your script, neither how
> you started it and what the waitFor script should be like, but I
> solved my problem, and more.
> 
Glad to hear it was of some help.


> What I did was:
> 1. I removed devilspie

I don't blame you!  :-)

[snip remainder]

You seem to have gone through much the same thought processes as I did.

It's such a pity that window managers (or session managers if you will)
no longer provide simple scripting facilities like the old ones (e.g.
fvwm2 etc.) did.

-- 
Chris Green