On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 16:00 -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > I have 2 questions about starting up an Xserver application and hope > that some one will be able to answer me on them. > > 1. I have Xgl & Compiz installed and running on my Fedora 5 with nVidia > GeForce 5200 Graphics card and was wondering how I can auto start the > command. > > Usually, after I login through KDE session, I open a terminal and run > "#compiz --replace ..." but it would be nice if I could auto start this > for all sessions after the xserver starts up. Any ideas on this one? There was a utility in KDE that was used to start X apps which you can specify which desktop and all kinds of other stuff. I wish I could remember it, sorry. > 2. Currently, I have to login to a gnome or kde session and then start > the application like OpenOffice Writer or Presenter. We are building a > small LiveCD demo and what I would like is for the Xserver to start up > and then start Presenter in full-screen without having to go through the > kde or gnome login procedure since in this case we would like to boot > right into the OpenOffice Presenter presentation after which they can go > into a demo or play another presentation. > > Any ideas or suggestion would be greatly appreciated. The above util will do the startup stuff. I believe you can set the box to boot directly into a user account rather than the GDM/KDM/XDM login screen. I wish I could be of more specific help. -- Joe Klemmer <klemmerj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
