starting programs as I login

[Erik Harrison]

On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 20:27:41 -0500, aec <brat at magma.ca> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
>   I would like to run a handful of applications everytime I login to
>   Xfce4. I use Debian unstable, Xfce 4.1.99.1 and use GDM as my login
>   manager.
> 
>   I have set up my desktop the way I like,
> 
>   workspace 1: urxvt terminal (irssi)
>   workspace 2: xfce terminal
>   workspace 3: urxvt terminal (ksmp3play)
>   workspace 5: firefox
>   workspace 5: mutt
>   workspace 6: urxvt terminal (vim)
> 
>   Then I choose logout, and save session, but when I log back in, only
>   workspace 2 with the xfce terminal is restored. The rest are empty.
> 
>   I am guessing xfce4 cannot save the state of urxvt and firefox as it
>   has no relationship internally with these apps as it does with the
>   xfce-terminal? Fair enough, I think, so I must be able to launch
>   the apps then from some initialization file? I tried adding
> 
>   exec urxvt
>   exec firefox

The exec lines wouldn't help anyway. At least the last one wouldn't,
as exec kills the running script and replaces it with the app.

I believe that firefox is getting real session management soon. I
recall it being in a point release, but remove for stability reasons.

-Erik
> 
>   to my ~/.xinitrc and ~/.xsession but nothing happened, I am thinking
>   now maybe because I use GDM it dosent read those files? But I am
>   unable to figure out what, if any file it does read?
> 
>   Does anyone have any suggestions on how to achieve this?
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
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> Angelina Carlton
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-- 
-Erik