On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 11:14, Richard Bos wrote:

Op zaterdag 19 januari 2002 05:15, schreef propheci:

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hi,

is it possible to tell KDE to autostart a program on a specific desktop on login?

kstart --help

And what will kstart do?? could I, e.g., add an entry kstart evolution in my .profile or .bashrc or whatever to start evolution automatically when I log in? I mean, these man pages or help entries, they always tell you about options and stuff, but not how to use them. Anyway, I'll check this out. And if someone has an explanation which entry is to be done where to make which program start automatically on which desktop, it would be appreciated. Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

Use kstart with the --desktop argument. And put the concerned <blah>.desktop file in the directory ~/.kde2/Autostart. The desktop file should contain the commandline "kstart --desktop 3 evolution" Op maandag 21 januari 2002 02:27, schreef wolfi:

On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 11:14, Richard Bos wrote:

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Op zaterdag 19 januari 2002 05:15, schreef propheci:

...

hi,

is it possible to tell KDE to autostart a program on a specific desktop on login?

Just tried it ... if I add the lines:

# The following is supposed to start evolution on login kstart evolution &

at the end of my $HOME/.profile file, it will fire up evolution as soon as I log in. Don't forget the &&& sign (AFAIR it's called ampersand ?? btw, one is enough ;-) ). Otherwise it will fire up your desired program and then freeze, since it doesn't allow other processes to come in the foreground afterwards (or similar, not quite sure, anyhow I had to nuke x with Ctrl-Alt-Bckspace and edit my /home/wolfi/.profile as root to make stuff working again)

Cheers ... Wolfi

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