[openbox] [Wish] Openbox uses ~/.config/autostart

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Tue Oct 17 14:11:51 EDT 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Sebastian Vahl wrote:

> Hi.
> It is possible to use ~/.config/autostart to start programs at startup
> automatically?
> I think this is better than editing /usr/share/xsessions/openbox.desktop and
> replace "Exec" with a script. The next time there is an update from the
> distribution this file would be replaced.
>
> Could be interesting:
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/autostart-spec/autostart-spec-0.5.html

It is not the task of the windowmanager to launch autostart applications, 
maybe you should take this up with your session manager and suggest they 
implement the spec.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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