SoNiC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was wondering if anyone knew how to auto launch programs when logging
> in? Thanks in advance.
It's pretty easy. If you want to autoload programs at the console,
you would add them to ~/.profile or ~/.login or ~/.bash<something>
depending on what shell and what distro you are using. For instance,
I use Slackware and bash shell so I would edit ~/.profile.
If you want to autoload programs in X you have some choices. It depends on
the windowmanager you are using.
For any WM - add them to ~/.xinitrc (remember to background them with
"&" and load the WM last in that file)
For KDE - not totally sure, but I think there is a "auto-start group"
For Gnome/Enlightenment - defaults to starting whatever was running
when you shut it down.
For FVWM - ~/.fvwmrc
For FVWM2 - ~/.fvwm2rc
A point to note. If you are trying to work out a way to auto-start
programs at the console and not in X, you may want to ask yourself "do
I really want to?". Here's why...
At the moment I have logged into my machine 6 times. I'm currently
writing this in Xemacs (of which I have 1 copy running and that is the
only copy I want running). For the sake of the argument, let's say
that I decide to have Xemacs start up automatically when I log in.
Now, on the surface, that's not a bad idea, because I use Xemacs for
mail, news, editing files, viewing man pages and info pages etc etc.
It's a great program that I don't think I could live without. But,
lets look a little closer. I've currently logged in 6 times, that
would be 6 copies of Xemacs running. Not exactly efficient.
Ok, having thought about this for a moment or two, I think I've
thought of a way around the above problematic scenario.
In keeping with the Xemacs example. Just load Xemacs via a shell
script from ~/.profile. That shell script would do a couple of
things. It would first check for the existence of a certain file, if
it wasn't there it would load Xemacs, if that file did exist Xemacs
would not load. If it loads Xemacs it creates that certain file.
Then in /etc/rc.d/rc.local I would delete that special file.
Now some of what I've said here may have gone over your head, that
doesn't matter. The point is that there is nearly _always_ a way to
accomplish something with Linux.
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Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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