Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up?

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 23:32 +0800, Deephay wrote:
> I heard that the ~/.xinitrc is not for start some application after X is started up,
> so I think it is totally wrong to modify the .xinitrc file, that's the reason why I 
> didn't mention the error message...is there another way to do this thing?
> I am currently using XFCE desktop environment.

for gnome it is done via sessions, from the package 'gnome-session'.

$ gnome-session-properties

perhaps xfce has something similar.

-matt zagrabelny