On 11-Mar-2000 Lane Lester wrote: > This is a repeat try at getting some information: > > How do you get things to start automatically in X? According to what I read > in _Running Linux_, you put them in .xinitrc in your home directory, but that > doesn't work for me. Here's my version; maybe there's something wrong with > it: >#!/bin/sh > xscreensaver & > exec icewm > -- > Lane > ____ > Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA > Using Linux to get where I want to go... Do you start the GUI automatically after booting or via 'startx'? If it's the former, the file you need is .xsessionrc. Just a guess. tom -- "No fun, no gain" Thomas 'tom' Berger, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (home), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) http://www.mandrakeuser.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED]