[openbox] Lanching applications with openbox

tim hall tech at glastonburymusic.org.uk
Thu Jul 8 11:13:15 EDT 2004


Last Thursday 08 July 2004 00:25, Christopher Knox was like:
> 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.

That's because openbox doesn't do it.
add them to your ~/.xinitrc before it calls openbox e.g.

exec xscreensaver &
exec gkrellm &
exec fbpanel &
exec openbox

if you use a graphic login you may need to put this in ~/.xsession

cheers

tim hall



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