How do I automatically start a program after X/gnome starts in FreeBSD?

papelboyl1 · 19th August 2012, 10:24 AM

As title. I searched but found nothing. Thanks

BAK · 19th August 2012, 10:43 AM

Out of interest, what program are you trying to start?

papelboyl1 · 19th August 2012, 10:49 AM

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Originally Posted by BAK

Out of interest, what program are you trying to start?

Not sure but as an example, let's say I wanna start the text editor app that comes with gnome. I believe this is gedit?

BAK · 19th August 2012, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by papelboyl1

Not sure but as an example, let's say I wanna start the text editor app that comes with gnome. I believe this is gedit?

Why? If you're starting something that's a background service then it's different - but why would you want to start a text editor every time you load X? (Or any other productivity type GUI program..)

papelboyl1 · 19th August 2012, 11:26 AM

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Originally Posted by BAK

Why? If you're starting something that's a background service then it's different - but why would you want to start a text editor every time you load X? (Or any other productivity type GUI program..)

I know how to create rc.d scripts for daemons but not sure how it works for gui apps.

and as for why, because I want to/for my own knowledge.

f3n1x · 19th August 2012, 6:32 PM

It depends, what display manager are you running?

Do you want it system wide or just per user.

if you want to do it system wide there's a directory called /etc/X11/Xsession.d, if you place a symbolic link to the program you want to execute, it will do so once a user is logged in.

If it's per user you want, the file ~/Xsession is what you're looking for.

Here's an example ~/Xsession:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
xmms &
xterm &

So as you can see its just a plain bash script.

elvis · 19th August 2012, 7:27 PM

What version of GNOME are you running?

papelboyl1 · 20th August 2012, 12:16 AM

Gnome 2.32.x

I'll try the suggestion fenix

Smakked · 20th August 2012, 12:44 AM

Under preferences check for sessions and you can add it in there

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/08/add...mes-autostart/

elvis · 21st August 2012, 9:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Smakked

Under preferences check for sessions and you can add it in there

http://www.ghacks.net/2009/04/08/add...mes-autostart/

Yup, this is the way I'd do it, specific to GNOME 2 (and/or MATE-Desktop).

papelboyl1 · 21st August 2012, 3:10 PM

thanks everyone. I tried the gnome2 autostart and works as intended.

tr3nton · 21st August 2012, 4:16 PM

See also, http://standards.freedesktop.org/aut...ec-latest.html

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