On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:59 am, Barran, Richard wrote: > Hello, > > I've been using Fluxbox on my home machine (LM8.2) for several weeks now. > I'd like to run certain programs at startup: xscreensaver, and some GUI > applications I use all the time such as Kmail. > I read a page on mandrakeuser.org about creating a .Xclients file with the > program I want to run, followed the instructions to the letter but no > success. > > Can someone help me? > > Thanks, > > Richard
There are a number of ways to do this. What I do is insert a line in ~/.fluxbox/init session.screen0.rootCommand: /home/derek/.fluxbox/startup This calls up a little bash script which starts all my start up apps for me. #!/bin/bash xscreensaver -no-splash & bsetbg -f ~/fluoresence6.jpg wmxmms & wmapm & wmsysmon & bbpager & rox -l mypanel Why use a script and not just put several "session.screen0.rootCommand" statements? For some reason I could not get it to work if I had more than one. BTW: If you are using fluxbox because it it is faster than KDE, then give sylpheed a try in place of Kmail. It is *lots* faster. And if you are on Mandrake 9.0, then rox is now available in Contrib. It is way faster than konqueror file manager HTH derek
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