Where to run applications like terminal windows that I always want

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 08:30:53AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:44:41 +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > I seem to be in a minority of one wanting to run X sessions like this but
> > anyway it's the way I like it.
> > 
> > What's the xfce4 equivalent of CDE's sessionetc file or xfce version 3's
> > xfwmrc file?
> > 
> > I want a simple place where I can run terminal windows (and maybe a couple of
> > other things) on a specified workspace in a specified position.  Should I just
> > hang this on the end of a customised xinitrc file?  This seems a bit wrong 
> > somehow, one should be able to leave the default xinitrc file in place in
> > /etc/xfce4 and have a personal file which adds appliactions to the desktop.
> 
> I posted my ~/Desktop/Autostart/startup.sh a week or two ago. It does exactly
> this.
> 
Aha, thanks!  I've not being paying really close attention to the list
for a while since I was sort of stuck in a rut with 3.18.8.  That's
the obvious way to do it of course though, a shell script to start
lots of things in ~/Desktop/Autostart.

> > 
> > I suppose I could also put things into Desktop/startmenu or whatever it is
> > but this again seems rather clumsy.  CDE's sessionetc is a much neater way
> > of doing it.
> > 
> > It would also be really cool to be able to save a set of desktop applications
> > and their positions like CDE can.  That's what I usually do on my work system.
> > Set it up as I want, save the desktop layout and then tell it to use that
> > layout on restarting.  You can then fine tune the layout if you want.
> > 
> > Doesn't anyone else ever want to start with the same desktop layout every time
> > they start X?
> 
> The other alternative is to just use xfce4-session
> 
Yes, I realised this after digging around a bit in the archives and
some Google searches, xfce4-session is what I'm looking for and it's
not part of the stable release yet.  I may well give it a try though.

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Chris Green (chris at areti.co.uk)