Autostart functionality

[Joe Klemmer]

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 13:13 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:

> 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). 

	Ok, that makes sense.  So far the only app I use with any regularity
that doesn't seem to be session aware is Firefox but I don;t want it
starting up automatically anyway.  I wonder if shell scripts are
session'able...  Thanks tons Brian.

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