[openbox] Lanching applications with openbox

[David Templer]

Sam Barnett-Cormack wrote:

>On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, tim hall wrote:
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>>Last Thursday 08 July 2004 00:25, Christopher Knox was like:
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>>>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.
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>>That's because openbox doesn't do it.
>>add them to your ~/.xinitrc before it calls openbox e.g.
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>>exec xscreensaver &
>>exec gkrellm &
>>exec fbpanel &
>>exec openbox
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>>if you use a graphic login you may need to put this in ~/.xsession
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>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
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>And I suspect you don't want all those execs - only the last one. Or
>you'll get xscreensaver running, and nothing else.
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>Sam
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Err pypanel much nicer :-)

Dave T.