force start of a program when XFce starts?

[Anthony Ewell]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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> Anthony Ewell wrote:
>> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
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>>> 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
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> 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

Cool.  Thank you!
-T