On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 07:04:59PM +0200, "Jérôme M. Berger" wrote: > [...] > >> The appropriate place to > >> start programs would be your ~/.Xsession or ~/.xinitrc, depending on > >> which is used by your login manager. A working bare bones session file > >> would look like this: > >> > >> #!/bin/bash > >> > >> nm-applet & > >> exec awesome > > No success using either startup file. > > I don't think the login manager is reading either of the files > > above. Darn ubuntu. > > > Well I don't like Ubuntu, but they are not to blame for this one. > Recent display managers (like gdm and kdm) don't run the .Xsession > and .xinitrc files. Instead they rely on a set of .desktop files to > describe the available desktop environments and let the user choose > from a menu (although there might be one entry to execute .Xsession > instead of launching a DE). Personally, I put the commands I want > started automatically in ~/.xprofile (which is a bit of a hack since > .xprofile is supposed to be used for setting environment variables, > but it works). > [...]
I know for a fact that with GDM the session which just calls your
.xsession (or .Xsession, depending on setup) is called "Execute .xclient
script" (and following that name, I'd guess it also executes ~/.xclient)
and with KDM the option is usually called something along the lines of
"Custom Session"
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Gregor Best
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