[openbox] Re: My first litle hack =)

[Keith W]

On 4/2/07, eveel <ezd at 2-u.ru> wrote:
> Brian Gomes Bascoy wrote:
> > If the magicflag is 1 then search if some other process with this name
> > are running (or with some temp file), if this is true, xpanel will not
> > be executed.
>
> It is awful!
>
> Yes, executing some programs when openbox starts is useful, but I think
> that exexcuting programs every config reload is useless feature.

Indeed.  There are plenty of ways to execute programs at the start of
a session already.  ~/.xinitrc, ~/.xsession, or use a session manager
like ROX-Session, for example (which has an "autostart" feature to
launch programs.... once. :)