You can save your session before logging out, this will start the apps that you had opened the previous session (well the ones that support this). The other thing you can do is go to: Preferences -> More Preferences -> sessions. There you can find "Startup Programs" and add those you want to start automatically (even if they don't get saved in your session) On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:32, Ken Chamberlain wrote: > Is there anyway to automatically start applications when logging on to > the graphical logon (X, gnome or KDE or whatever)? By that I mean when > you logon via the graphical logon screen into X (Gnome or KDE), having > x-apps like gaim and evolution automatically start. I know about > ~/.bash_profile, but if I put something in there it would also start > when I ssh or scp into that host (which I don't want). I was thinking > along the lines of windows idea of Start > Programs > Startup, but it > doesn't need to be that easy. > > Any ideas? -- Juan Gabriel Florez <jgflorez@xxxxxxxxxxx>