I don't think using ~/.Xsession will work with kdm. I put the items in ~/.Xsession and things worked fine with startx. Nothing happens when I start kdm. There is a /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsession file and I put a line in it to see if the program would start. Still no luck. Any ideas?
Lance > > On Fri Oct 25, 2002 at 06:15:52PM -0500, the boisterous > Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote to me: > > Does it matter if I am running a startup manager like > > KDM? > > I'm not aware of this, but maybe man Xsession will give you some hints. > > Oh, and yes, I forgot to reply to debian-user, so here is my original > reply: > > > > On Fri Oct 25, 2002 at 05:21:07PM -0500, the boisterous > > > Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote to me: > > > > I have some programs I wish to run when > > > > X starts up. I tried putting these in > > > > my .xinitrc but I guess that is the > > > > wrong place since they are not being > > > > run. Where do I need to put these? > > > > > > They should go to ~/.Xsession > > > But don't forget to allow user sessions in /etc/X11/Xsession.options by adding > > > allow-user-xsession > > > > > > > xset s off > > > > > > You have to add a & character after each x-client, elsewhere your > > > startup sequence will pause on this line. The windowmanager should be > > > started thru following line > > > exec x-window-manager > > -- > ___ Obviously we do not want to leave zombies around. > _/___\ - W. Richard Stevens > ( ^ > Thomas Krennwallner <krennwallner at aon dot at> > / \ 1024D/67A1DA7B 9484 D99D 2E1E 4E02 5446 DAD9 FF58 4E59 67A1 DA7B > (__\/_)_ http://members.aon.at/krennwallner/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]