I'm in digest mode so please forgive if an answer was already given... (and that I had to fake the original message.)
[email protected] (Jeremy Chase), 2009.06.03 (Wed) 16:56 (CEST): > tpb works just fine on my IBM t42p, but I am having difficulty getting > it to start automatically. I am using xdm and xfce and have tried > starting it from .xsession and rc.local. When putting it in rc.local, > but tpb just exits if there is no X session it can attach to. > > If I try this with .xsession; tpb will run as a daemon, but the and as user root. > buttons don't work. > $ cat .xsession > /usr/local/bin/tpb -d --thinkpad=/usr/sbin/zzz > exec startxfce4 I put this in my ~/.fvwmrc: <snip> AddToFunc InitFunction + "I" Exec exec tpb --daemon | logger -t tpb 2>&1 </snip> <snip> AddToFunc RestartFunction + "I" Exec exec tpb --daemon | logger -t tpb 2>&1 </snip> <snip> AddToFunc ExitFunction + "I" Exec exec pkill tpb > /dev/null 2>&1 </snip> works for quite a while already, very seldomly tpb ignores the buttons, but restarting it helps. I have no idea on how this is done in xfce4, sorry. Bye, Max
