Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:38:48 +0400
> I was a little shy about asking before, because I felt I hadn't done > enough digging on my own, but this info is incredibly hard to find. > > How do I set up what programs start at startup? I'm using Gnome...
Pure gnome way:
run gnome-session-properties
The other way:
cd ~/.config/autostart/
and create there file with extension `desktop` i.e. `gaim.desktop` than open this file in text editor and write:
[Desktop Entry] Name=Some name which you like Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Exec=gaim
and, finally `chmod u+x gaim.desktop`
second method will work with some other DE
Vitaliy Ischenko
gnome-session-properties says 'authentication rejected' etc.
I did this other method, using "Exec=sudo firestarter." Now when I start up, firestarter is open, but somehow the Gnome splash screen stays on until I click it. I don't know if it is the .desktop file that is opening firestarter, or Gnome's attempt to preserve the previous session. Now, the firestarter icon doesn't come up on the splash screen; I'm guessing because it's actually executing sudo and not firestarter? Interesting.
Chuckk Hubbard
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2006-May/010381.html
Date: May 14 2006
> I have set my mouse pointer speed in Fluxbox using the ~/.fluxbox/startup file > using the value show below. I've done something similar for the other desktop > environments that I use on my system, which is to say I have several > individual settings which all serve to accomplish the same purpose. Is there > a way I can just pass this value directly to the xorg.conf file and have it > apply to the entire system? Where would be the correct place to plug in the > value? > > xset m 3/4 1
You could put such stuff in ~/.xinitrc That are my 3 first lines:
xmodmap ~/.xmodmaprc xset dpms 300 400 500 export LANGUAGE=de
Johannes Held
On Sunday 14 May 2006 09:39, Rohan Dhruva wrote:
> IIRC, ~/.xinitrc is not executed unless you use startx from terminal.
> If you use {k,g,x}dm it wont be executed.
Yeah, I suppose that is where I'm having problems as I use KDM. I've got it fixed in KDE by placing a script in ~/.kde/Autostart.
Still, just a lot of individual configs for each desktop.
Mike McQueen
> > I know GDM calls from .xprofile, maybe KDM does too since they're both > > derived from XDM? > > It must not apply with KDM as that file is not on my system.
It wasn't on mine either, but now I use it to call urxvtd with GDM. It's just a non-executable dotfile in my home directory which functions like the .xinitrc does for startx.
Michael Salivar
documented on: 2006.06.19
http://www.blackie.dk/dotfile/redhat.html
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a piece of crab. This is the second time I felt disapointed about it.
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc > Get more memory . Your kernel will only make a marginal difference. Get > more memory. 32K is NOT enough for X, never mind Gnome. > Memory is cheap. about $20 for another 32M.
Up till last week, I was running a useable X system on a 486 w 16M of memory. X worked well @ 1024x768 resolution, and apps like Netscape (4.75) and WordPerfect (8) executed acceptably fast. I agree that the more memory, the better, but I don't agree that 32M is too small for X. It is, however, too small for Gnome-in-X (or KDE-in-X), and for that little memory, a lightweight WM would be better (say, Blackbox or UDE or WindowMaker).
Lew Pitcher
> In KDE, is there a way to start a new job's window on a specific > desktop?
For KDE 2.x (not sure if it was in KDE 1.x, try
kstart xeyes --desktop 2
Lauri Watts
