Autostart functionality

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 22:01 -0500, Erik Harrison wrote:
> 
>> If you are using the latest stable Xfce then just drop a script that
>> sets up and launches all the Terminals you need at startup, along with
>> their various custom environments, and drop it in ~/Desktop/Autostart
>>
>> If you are using Xfce 4.4 RC, you can use the autostart editor.
>> Admittedly, it requires a GUI, but I think you can handle it ;-). Run
>> the Autostarted Applications from the Settings submenu (alternatively,
>> run xfce4-autostart-editor from the command line). Then click the Add
>> button, and write in a short label and description for your Terminal
>> script, and then browse to the location of your script. 
> 
> Interesting.  How does this mesh with the session manager?  IOW, if I
> have something set to autostart and it gets saved in the session when I
> exit, when I log in again will two instances of it get started?

Unfortunately, the concepts of autostarted apps is there because not all
applications support x11 session management.  So if you put a
session-manager-aware app in the autostarted apps thingy, and also save
it in the session,  it'll get launched twice.

Unfortunately^2, this puts the burden on the user to figure out for
themselves if an app supports session management (not that it's
difficult to figure out, but that's still pretty lame).

	-brian

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