Re: Newbie-ish question: centralized debian place for X startup programs?
Hi Jaime
On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 11:58:32PM -0500, Jaime Herazo B. wrote:
> Hi. This is a kinda newbieish question. I'm fond of wmaker, but from
> time to time i get and try out other windowmanagers, mostly in my quest
> for The One True Flashy Desktop, something to show-off linux to other
> people so they all go "wooooow!" :)
>
> The problem is that i want to keep starting some stuff on X startup,
> like a messaging client, some monitoring stuff, and other things. But i
> wanna do it independently of the windowmanager chosen.
>
> Is there a standard debian place for stuff like this? like a
> $HOME/.startup file or something like that? that isn't dependant on the
> windowmanager? if not, what would be a good place to start looking for
> this?
$HOME/.xsession
Find mine attached as an example. It starts some programs and then pwm as the
window manager.
BTW: You can change the window manager any time in the debian menu.
HTH
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Joachim Fahnenmüller
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xsetbg ./.background/lin_docu1024.jpg &
buici-clock -geometry +914+0 &
xeyes -geometry 150x100+870+120 &
rxvt -geometry 90x30+192+144 -bg LightSeaGreen &
procmeter3 -geometry +911+277 &
pwm
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