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Re: programs to run at X startup



On Fri Oct 25, 2002 at 06:15:52PM -0500, the boisterous
Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com>
wrote to me:
> Does it matter if I am running a startup manager like
> KDM?

I'm not aware of this, but maybe man Xsession will give you some hints.

Oh, and yes, I forgot to reply to debian-user, so here is my original
reply:

> > On Fri Oct 25, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0500, the boisterous
> > Lance Hoffmeyer <lance@augustmail.com>
> > wrote to me:
> > > I have some programs I wish to run when
> > > X starts up.  I tried putting these in 
> > > my .xinitrc but I guess that is the 
> > > wrong place since they are not being 
> > > run.  Where do I need to put these?
> > 
> > They should go to ~/.Xsession
> > But don't forget to allow user sessions in /etc/X11/Xsession.options by adding
> > allow-user-xsession
> > 
> > > xset s off
> > 
> > You have to add a & character after each x-client, elsewhere your
> > startup sequence will pause on this line. The windowmanager should be
> > started thru following line
> > exec x-window-manager

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