Re: How to allow some basic programs to start automatically

blmblm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
In article <1148379212.31273.6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
The Natural Philosopher <a@xxx> wrote:
danish wrote:
Chirag Shukla wrote:
danish wrote:
Hi,
I want some programs to automatically start when I switch on my linux
box. For eg I would like to have the linpopup program automatically
start up..linpopup allows me to send messages to windows machines using
smb....
Can anyone help me out with this......

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there is a script file in the users home directory that executes when the user logs in. I forget what it is called, but it begins with a dot...put all user specific stuff in there.

Is there? Every shell seems to have its own such file, sometimes more
than one depending on whether the shell is invoked as a "login shell",
but is there something that's read in when one does a graphical login?

Yeah...I AM rusty aren't I? .rc .nashrc etc etc..

I THINK that x window logins have their own... .xsomething?



If I'm right that there's no such file -- why not? I can imagine
historical reasons -- for example, that it was assumed that any login
would immediately invoke a shell, which would read in user configuration
files, etc., etc. -- but it seems like now it would be a useful thing
to have.

FAIRLY sure that early x implementations at least - been years since I used X-windoze..have some sort of initialization, if only to fire up the window in the correct sort of way and spawn some kind of setup that is user based...chances are theres a script file somewhere that could read user environment stiff and spawn whatever else was needed.


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