[TriLUG] starting mozilla automagically

[Chris Knowles]

Wow.  That'd be great... except... :)

There's no startxfce4 file on the morphix CD.  There's also no Desktop
directory.  and creating them *doesn't* help.

I have tried googling for this, but nothing seems to jump out as being
the obvious choice.  

Can someone give me a pointer to a good tutorial on how X starts up, and
what order it does things?  And specifically what files it uses?

I'm looking at the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file where xfce4 is actually
(apparently) started from, and adding the mozilla-firebird to that
doesn't do it.  

Any help is appreciated.

CJK

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 16:09, Jason Tower wrote:
> i found this on the xfce.org page:
> 
> The startxfce4 is a convenient script to start an XFce 4 session from 
> the console. It will give you a session with a taskbar and a panel and 
> with the desktop manager and window manager running.
> 
> All programs, or symbolic links to programs, in ~/Desktop/Autostart/ 
> will be run by startxfce4 on startup.
> 
> To customize the behaviour of startxfce4, copy the file 
> ${sysconfdir}/xfce4/xinitrc to your personal ~/.xfce4/ directory and 
> edit that file. If you install from source, ${sysconfdir} defaults to 
> /usr/local/etc; for binary packages it is often set to /etc. The file 
> has to be executable:
> 
> chmod u+x ~/.xfce4/xinitrc
> 
> jason
> 
> On Sunday 10 August 2003 15:24, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > Ok, I'm customizing morphix (www.morphix.org) for a friend.
> >
> > And what he wants is for it to have certain packages installed, which
> > is no problem, it's the second request that's giving me fits.
> >
> > He wants mozilla-firebird to start on boot to a certain webpage.
> >
> > I've tried putting it into (what I think) are the standard
> > suspects...
> >
> > /etc/X11/Xsession
> > ~/.xsession
> > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
> >
> > None of these work.
> >
> > Now, all I can think of is that this is because these files get run
> > before the desktop is loaded, how do I get xfce4 to start a program
> > on bootup?
> >
> > any/all help is as always appreciated.  I'm feeling like a total
> > idiot at this point.
> >
> > CJK
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Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>
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