I heard that the ~/.xinitrc is not for start some application after X is started up, so I think it is totally wrong to modify the .xinitrc file, that's the reason why I didn't mention the error message...is there another way to do this thing? I am currently using XFCE desktop environment.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:17 PM Subject: Re: How to start an application automatically after X is started up? On 2/15/06, Deephay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem here: How to start an application automatically > after X is started up? > Actually I want to start the xscreensaver in daemon mode after X > is started up. I add the line "xscreensaver &" in ~/.xinitrc, but > the X server will then have some problem and cannot be started up. "Some problem" is pretty vague. Actual error messages would help considerably. You might try specifying the full path to xscreensaver in .xinitrc, though. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com