force start of a program when XFce starts?

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Anthony Ewell wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
>> The autostart editor (and the support for ~/.config/autostart/ that
>> deprecates ~/Desktop/Autostart/) is only available in new 4.4-based
>> releases.  For a 4.2 release (like the RPMs you mention above), you'll
>> have to use the ~/Desktop/Autostart/ method.  See the first paragraph of
>> http://www.xfce.org/index.php?page=documentation&lang=en#start
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
>     I would like to put my start up links where 4.4 will
> find them, when I finally get my hards on usable rpm's.
> I would like it if I did not have to troubleshoot my
> start up paths.

xfce4-session in 4.4 will automatically migrate any ~/Desktop/Autostart/
files to the new ~/.config/autostart/ format and location.

>     Does 4.2 support both the ~/.config/autostart and the
> ~/Desktop/Autostart paths?

No, which you'll see if you re-read what I said above.

>  If not, will 4.2 accept
> ~/Desktop/Autostart being linked to ~/.config/autostart?
> 
>         ln  -s  ~/.config/autostart  ~/Desktop/Autostart

This will work for 4.2, but will likely break things when you upgrade to
4.4.  The two autostart formats are not compatible.

If all you have access to now is 4.2, just use ~/Desktop/Autostart/, and
everything will still work properly when you switch to 4.4.  When you do
switch to 4.4, I recommend that you just use the included autostart
editor rather than mucking about with the files.

	-brian


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