/etc/X11/xfce4/xinitrc weirdness

[Scott Rubin]

Alexandre,

Sorry for the poor quoting, I only get the digest mailing list, so it is 
hard.  Anyway, if I recall correctly you had in your Autostart a text 
file which contained the text

gkrellm

and it is obviously executable.  This will not work.  You need to make 
it a shell script such as

#!/bin/sh
gkrellm &

even if you mark a text file as executable it doesn't mean it can be 
executed.  Try executing it on the command line.  Go to the Autostart 
folder and type

./gkrellm

If it works when you do that then it will work when you login.  I 
usually fill my Autostart folder with symbolic links to programs I want 
to execute and a single bash script named startscript.sh which does 
everything that cannot be accomplished simply by symbolic links.  I also 
make heavy use of devilspie to customize the behaviors of some of the 
startup apps.

-Scott
	

	Le mar 08/06/2004  19:00, Benedikt Meurer a crit :

	>> Wow, this is rather old. But anyway it supports Autostart. 			Are 
you sure that

	>> the script you put in the Autostart dir is marked as 			executable, 
else the

	>> session manager will ignore it.


	Yes it is executable:

	[alex at roissy]$ ll -h /home/alex/Desktop/Autostart/
	total 4,0K
	-rwxrwxr-x  1 alex alex 8 jun  8 18:34 gkrellm*
	[alex at roissy]$ more /home/alex/Desktop/Autostart/gkrellm
	gkrellm

	Is there something I can do to verify what the session manager 			does?
	Thanks a lot for your help,