From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 17 00:36:41 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 0661116A4CE for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:36:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89F5643D49 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 00:36:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.3) id j3H0adDS011850; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:36:39 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:36:39 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Brian Kinsey Message-ID: <20050417003639.GV4842@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050416231719.FOPR4997.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@VAIO> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050416231719.FOPR4997.imf17aec.mail.bellsouth.net@VAIO> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i 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 00:36:41 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 16), Brian Kinsey said: > 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. Xfce is just a window manager, right? Run xbattbar in whatever script file you start xfce from (usually .xinitrc). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com