Using Desktop/Autostart with the session manager

[Benedikt Meurer]

Andrew Conkling wrote:
> On 4.0.X, I would change the autostart path in the xinitrc from
> ~/Desktop/Autostart to ~/Desktop/.autostart, just because*.  Now that
> the session manager does its thing, that path is not editable from the
> xinitrc.  Is it possible to configure this, or is it hardcoded into
> the session manager's code?

You can upgrade to xfce4-session 4.3, which uses the new standard 
location for autostart scripts, see:

  http://xfce.org/%7Ebenny/tmp/autostart-spec-0.5-draft2.html

With 4.2, there's no way to change that except editing the source.

Benedikt