On Monday 03 Jan 2005 22:21, Charles R. Dennett wrote: > Hi, > > I've been running RedHat9 for coming up on two years. This past weekend > I upgraded my system to FC3. The upgrade went well. After the upgrade > I ran up2date and made sure I had the latest. > > Under RH9 I had a script in ~/.kde/Autostart I used to start up various > windows on certain desktops. It looked something like this: > > #!/bin/bash > > kstart --desktop 1 konsole -geometry 661x921-0+0 -profile MainKonsole > > kstart --desktop 2 konsole -geometry 1267x449+0+0 -profile BoincKonsole > > kstart --desktop 3 thunderbird > > kstart --desktop 4 firefox > > Pretty simple. Well, under FC3 it works...sort of. All four windows > start but it's a crap shoot as to which desktop each one will open in. > I tried adding "sleep 5" before each kstart command and it helped some, > but sometimes windows will open in a random desktop. All this worked > fine under RH9. Never had a problem with it. > > I've searched the archives of this list and googled for a report of a > similar problem but have come up empty so far. So, before I went too > much further, I figured I'd drop a note here just in case someone else > knew about this. > > Perhaps the ~/.kde/Autostart is not the way to do this now. Perhaps > kstart has been replaced with something else (kstart --help still shows > my syntax to be correct.) > > Let me know if you need more info - versions of stuff or whatever. If > I've missed something in my searches, just point me in the right direction. > > Thanks for any help. > > Charlie Charlie You shouldn't need this at all, KDE has pretty good session management. Simply start the programs/consoles as the user(s), then log out. KDE should restart the same programs next time you log back on as that user. -- Tony Dietrich ------------- Never trust an automatic pistol or a D.A.'s deal. -- John Dillinger
