Re: /etc/X11/Xsession.d

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

On 01/27/2011 10:59 PM, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anywhere I can read more about /etc/X11/Xsession.d?
>
> I want to use it to start an app when X starts, synergyc to be exact,
> following the steps from
> http://tacticalcoder.com/blog/2009/05/using-synergy-software-kvm-with-osx-
> and-linux/
>
> "The ubuntu community documentation has instructions on setting up the
> client to automatically start. They can be found here. In a nutshell you
> make a script. . . Name this script 12synergy and make it executable.
> Place this script in the /etc/X11/Xsession.d folder. This causes Synergy
> to start as root when the computer boots."
>
> This just doesn't work for me. No synergyc in ps when X (re)starts.

I don't use ubuntu.  In debian, for years now, anything I want to have 
start up in X I put in .xinitrc like this....

synergys --config ~/.synergy.conf --restart &
iceweasel &
icedove &
conky &

Note: I start x with startx, and use fluxbox WM.

HTH

WT