force start of a program when XFce starts?

Anthony Ewell aewell at gbis.com
Sat Dec 2 07:39:43 CET 2006


Terry wrote:
> Anthony Ewell wrote:
>>> It seems that the only way is to place a desktop file in 
>>> ~/.config/autostart. 
>>>     
>> What do you mean by "Desktop file"? Do you have an example
>> you can share?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> -T
> 
> As I say, I modelled mine on a file in /etc/(etc).  This is the file for 
> Bittorrent, which I withdrew because it took so long to launch the 
> application:
> 
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Name=Bittorrent
> Comment=Bittorrent
> Exec=bittorrent
> Icon=/usr/share/icons/bittorrent.png
> Terminal=false
> Type=Application
> OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
> Hidden=false
> 
> I saved it as ~/.config/autostart/bittorrent-autostart.desktop
> 


Thank you!



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