[openbox] Lanching applications with openbox

[Sam Barnett-Cormack]

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, tim hall wrote:

> 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

I did it by creating a nice system-wide startopenbox script, and got the
.desktop file used by *DM to run that. It just runs things that everyone
would want, mind, like epist

And I suspect you don't want all those execs - only the last one. Or
you'll get xscreensaver running, and nothing else.

Sam