From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 00:43:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B813E16A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:43:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A92743D1F for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from iqgrande@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0IF200G01FD1CY@asu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:43:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) <0IF200ENIFD1Y9@asu.edu>; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:43:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from [IPv6:::1] (enuxgs.eas.asu.edu [149.169.30.26]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id j3H0hmj5020485; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 17:43:48 -0700 (MST) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:43:48 -0400 From: "Anthony M. Agelastos" In-reply-to: <20050416231719.FOPR4997.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@VAIO> To: Brian Kinsey Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <20050416231719.FOPR4997.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@VAIO> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Starting applications automaticaly X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:43:50 -0000 As far as the xhost command goes, have you tried putting a & at the end, i.e. xhost +, su, xbattbar & That backgrounds the job, which should allow you to close the xterm from which it sprang (I could be wrong as I'm a newbie as well). On Apr 16, 2005, at 7:16 PM, Brian Kinsey wrote: > I am using xfce on FreeBSD 5.3. How do I make an application start up > automatically when xfce starts up? I am trying to learn on a laptop > and I > would like to have xbattbar start up automatically. Right now, I open a > terminal window and type xhost +, su, xbattbar and then I have to > leave the > terminal window open. > > > > I know this is probably in the handbook (which I admittedly have not > read in > its entirety), but I can not find anything in the ToC, the index, or > from > searching Google. Maybe I'm searching for the wrong thing? Any help, > even if > it is just a reference to the proper place to look in the handbook, > would be > greatly appreciated. > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >