Auto Start in XFCE4

[Loïc Lahalle]

Fabian Hänsel a écrit :

>Uwe Dippel <udippel at uniten.edu.my> wrote:
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>>Ed wrote:
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>>>Is there a way to have programs automatically start at launch of
>>>desktop?
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>>There is. Read the Forum.
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>>Place them in ~/Desktop/Autostart
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>>Only this doesn't work for me, whatever I put (there are samples, 
>>scripts, you name it).
>>~/Desktop/Autostart/myscript works well whenever I type it in a
>>console. It would never at start of XFCE4
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>The autostart files are only executed if they are executeable by the
>user.
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>They will be called from startxfce4. Means they won't be executed
>unless you use the script startxfce4 or put something appropriate into
>your xinitrc.
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I don't know if it's the right way to do that. But I fix it by editing 
my xinitrc (it was empty before) with :

# Start-up stuff from ~/Desktop/Autostart directory, if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/Desktop/Autostart" ]; then
cd $HOME/Desktop/Autostart
for i in `ls -1 -L 2>/dev/null`; do
if [ -x $i ] && [ ! "${i:${#i}-1:1}" = "~" ]; then
# Only start executable scripts which are not a backup
./$i &
fi
done
cd $HOME
fi

Hope it works for you !

    - Loïc -