[openbox] Lanching applications with openbox

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 01:30:44AM +0200, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Christopher Knox wrote:
> >I was wondering if it is possible to start applications automatically when 
> >openbox starts - for example gkrellm. I looked at the rc.xml and rx.xsd 
> >file and it was not obvious (to me) how to do it.
> Openbox is a window manager, not a session manager.

In other words, you need to put the commands in ~/.xsession.  E.g.:

#!/bin/sh
gkrellm &
exec /usr/bin/openbox

(assuming your display manager is properly configured to run .xsession).
-- 
Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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