Re: Launching terminal apps at startup in X-Windows?

From: Andreas Tretow (andreas.tretow-ng_at_gmx.de)
Date: 09/28/03


Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 14:36:02 +0200

On Sun, 28 Sep 2003 07:19:56 +0000, Gwen Morse wrote:

> Is it possible (and if so, how would I go about doing it) to set up
> RH9 to open a terminal window and launch a terminal-based app (like
> Pine) as part of the normal login process of booting into my KDE
> desktop?
>
> Gwen

Don't know about KDE, but if you were to use an ~/.xinitrc, add this line
to it:
xterm -e pine &

You might also want to read 'man xterm' for further options.

HTH
Andreas



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