[TriLUG] starting mozilla automagically

[Chris Knowles]

Grr.

Ok, I've got it working, and I'm putting it in here, in case our archive
searching ever starts working again.  :)

the file you want for morphix light GUI to autostart a file is
/etc/gdm/Sessions/Xfce4

Obvious, isn't it?

Thanks for all the suggestions.

It's miller time.

CJK

On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:54, Chris Knowles wrote:
> 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
-- 
Chris Knowles <chrisk at trilug.org>
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