I managed to resolve this and want to save it for anyone else searching for the answer. I could not get tpb to work correctly from my .xsession file. I tried it several ways, and ended adding it to xfce4's autostart.
check out xfce4-autostart-editor to do this. Thanks to everyone who gave me input into this problem. Jer -- Jeremy Chase, N1JER http://weatherfinder.info On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:50 PM, MERIGHI Marcus<mar...@.at> wrote: > I'm in digest mode so please forgive if an answer was already given... > (and that I had to fake the original message.) > > jeremych...@.com (Jeremy Chase), 2009.06.03 (Wed) 16:56 (CEST): >> tpb works just fine on my IBM t42p, but I am having difficulty getting >> it to start automatically. I am using xdm and xfce and have tried >> starting it from .xsession and rc.local. When putting it in rc.local, >> but tpb just exits if there is no X session it can attach to. >> >> If I try this with .xsession; tpb will run as a daemon, but the > > and as user root. > >> buttons don't work. >> $ cat .xsession >> /usr/local/bin/tpb -d --thinkpad=/usr/sbin/zzz >> exec startxfce4 > > I put this in my ~/.fvwmrc: > > <snip> > AddToFunc InitFunction > + "I" Exec exec tpb --daemon | logger -t tpb 2>&1 > </snip> > > <snip> > AddToFunc RestartFunction > + "I" Exec exec tpb --daemon | logger -t tpb 2>&1 > </snip> > > <snip> > AddToFunc ExitFunction > + "I" Exec exec pkill tpb > /dev/null 2>&1 > </snip> > > works for quite a while already, very seldomly tpb ignores the buttons, > but restarting it helps. > > I have no idea on how this is done in xfce4, sorry. > > Bye, > > Max
