Re: How to start an user program automatically after logging on.

[Depo Catcher <depocatcher@gmail.com>]

bro, if it's a command line program you can do this in the crontab:

   @reboot /home/me/bin/myscript.sh


more info: http://team.macnn.com/drafts/crontab_defs.html

On some systems you can even start GUI programs with the @reboot
You'll have to test and depends a bit on startup order and desktop 
environment, but usually you can get away with something like this

   #!/bin/bash

   export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
   # give the DE time to load
   sleep 20
   /usr/local/bin/MyFancyXApp &
   exit






Allan Wind wrote:
> On 2009-05-12T14:16:43, J.Hwan.Kim wrote:
>   
> > I'd like to know how to start a program automatically after booting.
> > For example, I wish to let "Mail Notification" program start
> > automatically after logging on.
> > Could you tell me the method?
> >     
>
> Are you using KDE/GDM, or XFCE?  Automatically starting programs is 
> usually functionality that is invoked when you login, and the process
> depends on the window environment you use.  XFCE has Sessions and 
> Startup option in the settings manager (which ends up creating files in
> ~/.config/autostart).
>
>
> /Allan
>