[gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

[gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Hi!

I'm really frustrated at gnome.

I have this .desktop file I've installed in /usr/kde/3.5/share/autostart and it works just like
expected: any user who logins, gets this app run automatically, and the icon appears in the traybar,
just as if it has been called from the Konsole. (it's a wxwidgets app).

Now, after doing LOTS of google research, in every keyword and combo and google extension you can
imagine, I find that there is no "start-after" equivalent for GNOME :(

This is the .desktop file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Test Application
GenericName=Test Application
TryExec=/opt/Test_Application/BN
Exec=/opt/Test_Application/BN
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Path=/opt/Test_Application
StartupNotify=true
X-GNOME-autostart-after=panel
X-KDE-StartupNotify=true
X-KDE-autostart-after=panel
Icon=/opt/Test_Application/BN.png


Any idea, guys? You are my only hope! :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Thursday 21 September 2006 00:53, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:

> Now, after doing LOTS of google research, in every keyword and combo
> and google extension you can imagine, I find that there is no
> "start-after" equivalent for GNOME :(

I don't use gnome, but maybe this:

http://www.gnome.org/learn/users-guide/2.14/gosstartsession-2.html#gosstartsession-6

can help?
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

[Mick]

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On Wednesday 20 September 2006 23:53, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote:

> I have this .desktop file I've installed in /usr/kde/3.5/share/autostart
> and it works just like expected: any user who logins, gets this app run
> automatically, and the icon appears in the traybar, just as if it has been
> called from the Konsole. (it's a wxwidgets app).
>
> Now, after doing LOTS of google research, in every keyword and combo and
> google extension you can imagine, I find that there is no "start-after"
> equivalent for GNOME :(

I'm afraid this may not directly answer your question (because I am not 
familiar with Gnome) but this is how it works for Fluxbox:

I start my apps by placing them in ~/.fluxbox/startup (I use fluxbox as a WM).  
So, I place the dockapps that I want starting before the /usr/bin/fluxbox 
command therein:
====================================
wmpower &
wmnd &

# And last but not least we start fluxbox.
# Because it is the last app you have to run it with ''exec'' before it.

exec /usr/bin/fluxbox
====================================

Is there perhaps an equivalent in Gnome?
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome autostart issue

[Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman]

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Mick wrote:
> wmpower &
> wmnd &

Yes, this is quite the standard .xinitrc format, before xdm/gdm/kdm got famous. Pretty simple, and
guaranteed.

> Is there perhaps an equivalent in Gnome?

So far, I've been trying EVERYTHING, but the ONLY thing that worked, was manually adding the command
to autostart via the gnome-session-properties application. The issue is that I need to set something
like that globally form an installer package (rpm, esp's epm, or whatever). KDE works
out-of-the-box, but GNOME is a real pain in the painful area. :)


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