Charles R. Dennett wrote: > Tony Dietrich wrote: >> 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 >>> > >> >> 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, > > Well, that helped some. Just to make sure I did this right, I fired up > the Control Center, went to the KDE Components section and seleced > Session Manager. I changed it from start with an empty session to start > with a manually saved session. Saved and exited that. Then I arranged > the windows that I want to see at login and then clicked the Red Hat on > the taskbar and selected save session. > > BTW, each konsole actually has 3 shell windows. The one on desktop 1 > all start in my home directory. The one on desktop 2 has each shell > start in a different directory. > > I then logged out and logged back in again. The two konsole windows > came up fine. Thunderbird and Firefox never came up. I manually > started them, saved the session again and logged out/back in. Same thing. > > I'll keep trying. Maybe it's the way I start TB and FF. I do not use > the FF that came with FC3. I already had them before I upgraded. > Installed in /usr/local with /usr/local/bin/firefox and > /usr/local/bin/thunderbird as symlinks pointing to where the executable > really is. /usr/local/bin is in my path. (I'm an old Sun UNIX sys > admin and that's the habit I have.) > I use a program called 'kdocker' which allows you to dock a program into the system tray, and if you log off with them still active and then restart your session, they are restarted on startup. At the moment I have knode, Gmail Todo, kpilot, Kcheck Gmail, and firefox locked down with it, and they all restart. Perhaps it will help your problem? Take care Sharon. -- 16:49:28 up 6 days, 18:25, 1 user, load average: 1.76, 1.41, 1.33 A taste of linux http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/efever/index.html efever http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ Fedora Core 3, KDE 3.3.2-1.2.3, OpenOffice 1.1.4 Registered Linux user 334501
