Re: Start only one program at login

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I've wanted to this too but could not succeed. Thanks for the great tip.
May I further ask: is there an easy way to apply it to all users on the
system?  I've tried putting the same thing in /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession
but it did not work.

Thanks,
Khem

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:34 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 24Jan2007 20:41, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu <m3freak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 10:20 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> | > Get rid of the "&".
> | > 
> | > The duration of the .xsession script is the duration of your login.
> | > Normally you would kick off a few things in the background with "&"
> | > (terminals, browsers, whatever) and finally start a window manager
> | > _without_ an "&". In this way the script is waiting for the window
> | > manager - quitting the window manager logs you out.
> | > 
> | > So you want to start a single app _instead_ of a window manager.
> | 
> | Thank - that's the explanation I was looking for.  I should have
> | realized that backgrounding the  terminal wasn't what I wanted to do.
> | 
> | Here's what I ended up doing:
> | 
> | exec /usr/bin/metacity --sm-disable &
> | exec /usr/bin/gnome-terminal --window --full-screen
> | 
> | I think I'm doing that right.  I'm not sure if I should have two exec
> | lines.  It is working though: when I exit the gnome-terminal, I get
> | logged out, which is exactly what I wanted.
> 
> Good.
> 
> You don't need two exec lines. You don't even need one:-)
> 
> Using "exec" _replaces" the shell running the script with the program
> being called. Normally the called program is a child of the shell. For
> the last program in a script it can be a tiny performance win to exec
> it, since the shell is no longer needed.
> 
> Using "exec" with a "&" is harmless but also useless.
> 
> So I would write:
> 
>   metacity --sm-disable &
>   exec gnome-terminal --window --full-screen
> 
> I normally try to avoid full pathnames to executables - things will just
> break if the system layout is changed. Do you type full paths at your
> shell prompt? Rarely I would hope:-) Scripts are no different.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> DoD#743
> http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/
> 


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